Date: 2005-05-01
From: somewhere (I'll fix this soon)

To: somewhere (I'll fix this soon)
Miles today: 0.0

It's May day, break out the maypole and the warm weather clothes. Well, not yet.Woke up early in the hotel room. It's the hiker alarm clock, when thesun rises, you wake up. It doesn't matter whether you can see the sunor not, you wake up. So here I am, in a bed with Tunes, Bubbletoesand Rawhide in the bed next door, how shall I pass the time? Fortunately, my newfound radio was within reach. Surfed channels,found an oldies station and biggity-bam Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get ItOn" was playin.Definition of a friend: someone who you can wake up by sticking anearpiece in their ear and they'll not only be OK with it, they'llstart singing along. So Tunes sings the lead and I sing the backupson what is perhaps the best humpin' song ever written. Soon Rawhideand Bubbletoes were awake and laughing. Well, now we're awake, wemight as well get breakfast. Back to Rhonda's.For all the hikers, Rhonda's is a great place to eat, it's dirt cheapand pretty good food. At breakfast this morning were Bubbletoes,Rawhide, Tunes, Rainbow, Spartacus, Jersey Jones. Spice Rack joinedus later on, as he had packed up and checked out before heading up forbreakfast.Well, now we had to leave town, it's always a hard thing to do. Asluck would have it, we were on our way past the dairy king ot 10:50,and it opened at 11. Waiting inside the convenience store thatadjoined the DQ, for a few minutes, I decided to go for the RaspberryCheesequake. As luck would have it, they were out of "cheesequake",whatever that key ingredient was, so I ended up with a heath barblizzard. I wasn't disappointed. As I enjoyed the blizzard, Tunesshows up with a great $.50 find, a sticker of some professionalwrestling woman. As he sat down he muttered "shoulda got the BritneySpears sticker". Well, needless to say, within a few hours, Tunes andI had purchased a whole set of Britney Spears stickers attempting toget the display one of our favorite talentless pop star. As it turnsout, there was no sticker of Britney in her schoolgirl outfit in theset of 12. We know this because we bought the whole set. So what wasI going to do with 6 britney spears stickers? Now my nalgene has 3,my frisbee has 2, Bubbletoes has one, and there's one left. I'm notsure what I'll do with it, but it'll get put to good use.The hiking today was pretty effin' hard, nolt sure whether those shortdays have made me weak, or whether it's my sickness. Oh yeah, I'msick. Since yesterday I've been caughing up some bad colored phlegm. I think I've got a cold or some other similar affliction, not surewhat to do but wait it out. It definitely hurt my hiking speed today,but I had to press on. Highlights of the slow hiking did include anice open field where you could see about a mile of trail behind you. Tunes was ahead of us and put on quite a little dance show as weheaded up the trail. It was only fair that Rawhide, Bubbletoes, Tunesand I mooned Rainbow and Spartacus from 1/4 mile away as they hikedtoward us. When they caught up, Rainbow even joined in the moon linefor Jersey Jones. Maybe hiker humor is immature, but it was REALfunny. Downsides of today included a pretty decent area of the trailthat went through a farmers field. Not only was the trail poorlymarked, in some of the spots where it was marked, it went through 4inches of mud/cow shit/water. However far worse than losing the trailor trudging through cow shit was when Tunes re-injured his ankle onlyyards short of the shelter. It seems bad, but we're all hoping he'llfeel better in the morning. Speaking of morning, it's about time Istart to turn in.