Date: 2004-10-17
From: Happy Hill Shelter, VT

To: Pomfret- S. Pomfret Road (Truck)
Miles today: 12.9

12.9 miles todaySleeping in back of my truckPomfret-S. Pomfret Rd, Vt.I got up slowly today because I was going to give Hippie until 9am to show up before I hiked on. I made coffee and was eating breakfast when she showed up at 7:30am. She got an early start this morning because she had already walked 3 1/2 miles. It was great seeing her again. I haven't seen her since up in Maine in August. She had a plan!! Hippie's always got a plan. She said we could pick my truck up from Glencliff, NH and we could take her truck and park it about 20 miles down the trail and walk between the two trucks each day for the next two weeks. Ok, sounds good to me because it will mean more restaurant food. Heck, I might even put on a couple pounds hiking like that. I told her that I wanted to hike some today, but that after I got in a few miles, we could go up and pick up my truck. She went back to her truck and met me at Rick and Tina's Country Store in W. Hartford, Vt. where I was bellied up to the bar having my second breakfast when she arrived...it's tough hiking this section of Vt!! I wanted to hike somemore, so she met me at Joe Ranger Rd. next, but I kept on hiking to S. Pomfret Rd. before it started to rain. The cold, bone chilling rain made up my mind for me...time to go and get my truck!! It was a cool hike today with the temperature never getting out of the 40s. The trees are magnificent with all the beautiful fall colors. I saw more grouse today, but that was pretty much it as far as wildlife. We drove over to the hostel in Glencliff to get my truck. Lion King was there and I think he was glad to have a little company. There just aren't any hikers going through there this time of year. We talked about an hour and I went out back and took a shower. Boy, that was hard to do because it's an outside shower and it was 43 degrees out. I needed it though, so I toughed it out...whimpishly. That's the Florida boy still in me. I know that wouldn't bother alot of people, but I don't cold showers, even though there was hot water. We left and drove back to where I got off the trail, after a quick stop at a McDonald's. It's always hard to believe how far you can walk in such a short time. It probably took 1 1/2 hours to drive back to where it took me four days to walk. If this works out for the next two weeks with Hippie and I moving our trucks each day, I should get my truck down to Ct. somewhere and we should have fun doing it. I'll also get to sleep on a mattress in the back of my truck each night!! She has to go back home in 13 days, so we'll take advantage of this for now. If you are reading this the same week that it happenned, that means that my good, dear friend, Goosebump The Snow Princess has accepted the non-payed opportunity to be my substitute transcriber for a week while Jan Liteshoe (my doesn't give a hoot about my fan, Michelle, from Pinehurst, NC, who would probably have withdrawl symptoms without her daily fix of the Stumpy journal) is out galavanting around on the coast for a week.(Substitute transriber's note: No Problem helping out a dear old friend Stumpknocker.) (http://www.trailjournals.com/liteshoe/)Hey Goosebump The Snow Princess, just in case you accept the responsibility of this endeavor and I don't make contact with you...Thanks!!! (Substitute transcriber's note: You are welcome) Another great day on the A.T.