Date: 2018-07-26
From: Wawayanda Shelter

To: Warwick drive in movie theater
Miles today: 10.1

Last night the mosquitos were making a feast of my face in the shelter. I had to put bug repellent on to keep them off my face. Rosie had the same problem. I didn't sleep too well last night but I knew I could push through today. Rosie had headed out to the state park about .2 miles away. They had a bathroom with a forceful blow dryer. He was looking to dry out his socks. I got up and packed my stuff and headed over to the state park.  I found Rosie next to the bathroom. He had done his business. I used the hand dryer to dry out my socks from the night before. It was jet powered and dried them really fast. I ate some muffins for breakfast. I decided to take my time to catch up on my journal entries and Rosie pushed on. I stayed at the state park for 4 hours. At 1 pm I got back on the trail.  As soon as I left the park I heard a familiar voice call my name. It was Stealth! He had taken a zero and I caught up to him. I was really glad to see him. He was thinking about when he would see me again. On his backpack he pulled off a Tibetan prayer flag that he had made me. He had been carrying it for sometime. I hung it across my pack. We rolled out together. I got a call from Rosie saying he was going to stop at the Bellvale Creamery for ice cream in 10 miles. That was excellent motivation for me to hike there. The weather had cleared up and it started to get hotter. I made sure to hydrate extra today. We rolled through New Jersey on our way to the border. The landscape started changing as we hiked over mountain tops that were carved by ice age glaciers. We soon arrived at the NJ/NY border.  Scissors had sent a video of her twerking at the border. Stealth and I decided to make our own twerking video to send to everyone else.  We had another 5 miles until the creamery.  There were a few rock scrambles and really slanted areas. Rosie said he was going to hitch to the drive in movie theater from the creamery since it wasn't supposed to rain tonight. I really wanted to check it out because it was a unique experience to camp at a drive in. Stealth and I took a blue blaze to the creamery. We saw Tree Beard and Aladdin. Tree Beard had an ice cream sundae that looked really good. I went inside and ordered one. It came with 3 scoops and 3 toppings. The staff knew to load up the sundae for hungry hikers. They added extra ice cream and toppings. It was so much food. I happily ate the sundae but couldn't finish it all.  Tree Beard finished it for me. I asked the hikers there if they wanted to go to the drive in and split a shuttle. It didn't seem like anyone wanted to go. Stealth had spent a good amount of money during his zero and wanted to save some money. He headed out to the next shelter. Rosie sent me a number for a local shuttle driver named Josie. I called her and she said she would pick me up in 30 minutes. As I waited Aladdin said he wanted to go as well.  I called Josie 45 minutes later and she said she got a flat tire. She gave me info for a local taxi driver. I called them and they showed up 10 minutes later.  At the Warwick drive in there were several hikers hanging out on the hill watching Mission Impossible. They didn't charge hikers for watching movies either! Rosie, Lupine, John, Spot, Naked Santa, Cosmic, and Easy Going were already there. Easy Going handed me a beer. I didn't really pay too much attention to the movies and hung out with everyone. They were playing a double feature and the movies went on late into the night.Tonight I'm listening to the movie The First Purge in my tent. The movie really doesn't inspire good dreams.