Start: Webster Road (campsite)
End: Pittsfield Road (Cookie Lady)
Miles: 16.1 today, 1540.7 total
Yes friends, I'm staying at the Cookie Lady's blueberry farm. Got my tent up in her front yard. It's really a husband and wife living in a house with a black guy (who I'm guessing is either hired staff for the farm or maybe an adopted son? I don't know). Anyway, they're really nice folks. She brought out a little basket with 3 cookies and 2 small packages of pitted prunes - gotta stay regular. Their dog, Rufus, barked at me when I first walked up, but later was really friendly. And they let me use their phone after I tried calling home twice only to have the connection get screwed up both times. So a little bit of Trail Magic, you might say.
Well, because the miles were on the easy side, and the terrain wasn't so bad, I took advantage of the extra time and really wailed on those backed-up journal entries that I've been meaning to get to. It's a new trip record: including this one, I wrote 5 journal entries today, as well as setup the little table of contents -type thing in the front. (post-hike note: All of my journal entries were hand-written with a black pen in 4 5/8" x 7" 48-page "Rite in the Rain" yellow notebooks. I ended up filling 3 of those notebooks by the end of the trip. I kept a "table of contents" in the front of each book, though in hindsight, not sure how much value it added.) Really made some progress there. So now I've only got 3 outstanding entries left to take care of.
Man, I can hear those mosquitos outside waiting to tear into my flesh. They're insanely bad here in the Tea Party State. Hope I don't have to pee tonight, they might bite my willy!
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