Date: 2004-11-01
From: Moosie's home, New Milford, Ct

To: Sleeping at Dr Dolittle's apartment in Cranston, R
Miles today: 0.0

Zero miles todaySleeping at Dr Dolittle's apartment in Cranston, RISalisbury, Ct (trail)I got up at 6am to say goodbye to Moosie before he left for work in NY City. He left at 6:30am and then Goldilocks left for high school at 7am. That left Mrs Moosie and Mike there. I was messin' around with email, laundry and gathering up my stuff and missed Mike when he left. I took a shower and then Mrs Moosie and I sat down and ate breakfast. I had a whole pot of coffee all to myself!! We talked for a while and I learned more about some of the adventures that Moosie and Goldilocks have been on. Goldilocks has just earned Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts. That's quite an accomplishment. Moosie called from NY City and said he found a tick on himself from the walk yesterday, so I went in the bathroom to check for any on me. I didn't find any....Yeah!! I hauled some firewood up the stairs for Moosie since he has to work so much right now. Mrs Moosie said that it would embarrass him if I did that, but I can't imagine that hurting Moosie's feelings at all. My friends have been helping me out with the hits on my journal and I got an email right away from Liteshoe wondering what's going on. She really keeps an eye on her competition!! I added a few more hits on my journal myself just to get more of a reaction from her. I'm closing in on her journal hits and she is really getting nervous. She doesn't realize that there aren't that many people posting right now and I'm probably getting a few extra people looking at my journal. Mrs Moosie had to go to work and I wasn't quite done with all my stuff, so she told me to lock up when I left. I folded my laundry, checked email one more time, added a few more hits , made a sandwich for the road and left at about 11:20am. I drove up to Salisbury, Ct to get my bounce box since the po was closed when I got done walking on Saturday. I also got the phone number for the Bennington, Vt po and called to see if my package had arrived yet. It wasn't there when I hiked through the area last week, but it was there now. I decided to go ahead and drive up to get it since my absentee ballot was in with the rest of the mail and it had to be postmarked by tomorrow. It was way out of the way, but it was important for me to take care of that. I then headed for Dr Dolittle's in RI and I didn't get to Warwick until about 6:30pm. I called the Dr and she gave me directions to her place. I got there and the hiking dog extraordinaire, Maggie, met me at the door with Dr Dolittle right behind her. I gave Maggie a good pat and scruffed her up a bit and then gave Dr a hug from me, then gave her a hug from Goosebump. I don't mind delivering hugs for other people. I knew John Galt was there also because I parked right behind his car. It's great seeing all of them again!! We all went out for dinner and ended up sitting there for about 1 3/4 hours just eating dinner and then talking for the rest of the time...two favorite hiker past times!! When we got back to the apartment, I showed them the pictures that I've taken in the last three hundred trail miles through NH, Vt, Mass and into Ct. There is no furniture in the apartment yet, so we are all sleeping on the floor...feels good to me. Hopefully, we'll get the moving truck unloaded tomorrow and be back on the trail the next day. I have to thank the Moosie's again for being such great friends and feeding a hungry hiker so well. I really owe you all a bunch and will find a way someday to repay your hospitality. There are two more players in the falling leaf catching game...Rainbow Slick with 10, Goosebump The Snow Princess (big, fat, pregnant girl) with 4, Moosie with zero, Mailar with 2, Hippie with 61 and Stumpy with 77. I got an email from Goosebump The Snow Princess today and she said that her and her husband went on a 7 mile walk last weekend and got into the game and had a blast. She even said tha Rainbow Slick was driving down the road and tried to catch one by sticking his arm out the window, so if you see someones arm flailing out a window, they may not be flippin' you off, they may have joined in the falling leaf catching game.Another great day near the A.T.