Date: 2010-05-27
From: Salisbury

To: Salisbury
Miles today: 0.0
Weather: clear sky

2 2.        Report Last night¢s sleep wasn¢t all that comfortable. The temperature during the day rose as high as 102.1 deg F. It had cooled off quite a bit by the time I went to bed; but my neck and shoulder blade was giving me some grief. I had made an appt with a massage therapist for 1100 this am and was really looking forward to it. I was up early and fixed myself breakfast. I¢m staying at Maria McCabe, per McIntyre¢s recommendation, and it¢s a great choice. She wanted to replace the upstairs toilet seat and I said I could do it easily. After all, shouldn¢t be much more than taking a couple of screws out of the old seat and putting in two more from the new seat. Except, the old seat had a brass nut, welded onto a steel bolt, covered by deteriorating rubber bushing and with an extremely limited tool set, in very cramped working space. Over an hour later, I finally got the old seat removed. WE went and got a new seat and the installation of the new seat took about 2 minutes. Maria wanted to pay me but I refused. I went to the therapist for my appt; but all was closed and no one ever showed up. I was expecting MLM, JP and Jake the Wonder Dog later that afternoon. But I was quite surprised when they arrived around noon. They had brought paper maps of the AT in CT and MA and it¢s my plan NOT to hike ant more AT without paper maps. In the meantime, I made another appointment with chiropractor in Canaan and Maria was very pleased to be able to drive me there. I saw the doctor and got treatment for rotator cuff muscle injury. It didn¢t feel all that great at the time; but feels so much better now. While picking up the new toilet seat, a got a tube of shoo goop to repair my boots. Rocksylvania ruined my toe plate and the leather was totally worn thru in both boots. Hopefully, 2 generous coats will help keep them a little more waterproof. While riding to Canaan, Maria took me on a tour where I photographed some local Methodist Churches. She also showed me Meryl Streep and Estee Lauder¢s home.This has been a typical zero day for me which leads to latest JP quote: ¢With respect to the lost hiker who hiked 8 miles in the wrong direction and then another 8 miles back, ending at exactly the same location he started, now that is some zero day!¢ Thanks again to MLM, JP and Jake for the maps and your friendship6 Mizza Pizza, Lakeville CT.   2 Greasy Spoons. Best sausage Stromboli yet and salad was quite good as well. But service and delivery was somewhat lacking.White Hart Inn. 3 Clean Spoons. I ordered the Pomegranate Brined Grilled Free Range Farm Free Range Chicken Sandwich with potato salad and my guests had the Twin Lakes Farm Black Angus Burgers with cheese of choice on a Grilled Pretzel Roll with fried potato and sweet potato. These names alone should give you a clue to this type of establishment. The food was outstanding and if this was a foo foo yuppie review it would be in contention for 5 spoons. But this is a hiker journal and I must take away 1 spoon for ambiance and another for being a bit up$caleNote: it appears that I¢m now entering sections where cell coverage will be spotty at best and recharge locations more distant. So, there may be some outages starting soon. Also, I¢ll enter BCM 1 (battery conservation mode 1 ¢ minimum communication) when power becomes low and BCM 2 (emergency use only) when power is really low.Life is Great!