Day 129 liberty springs campsite 11 miles

Today I got up after having a long conversation with a southern baptist minister and unicorn. I headed out and made it to my first hut in the whites. They fed me soup, gossip and brownies. After a while I headed out down to the main trail head and under the highway. I got up to the campsite by. 6pm where I did a work for stay with cam. 

Day 128 Eliza brook shelter 14 miles

Today I finally made it I to the whites. I got over Mausilake and had a lot of fun with the first real climb in a long time. I am surrounded by section hikers. There was trail magic to get me to Eliza's.

Day 127 Jeffers brook shelter 8 miles

I got up planning to do a long hike with a small resupply in Warren. I hitched in to the post office to find that my shoes had not arrived. This sucks as my shoes are almost toast. In the post office a lady asked me back to her place for a sandwich. I ended up saying yes but resupplying first. I couldn't help myself from ordering a bacon and egg cheeseburger. Ellie and her husband Greg drove by the gas station and picked  me up. I ran into edi, a Peruvian lady who is section hiking the AT with her husband from Texas. I ended up chatting with Ellie and Greg for a couple of hours before they returned me to the trail. They were fascinating people heading to Spain to do the camino.

Day 126 dancing bones 22 miles

Worn and I started out early and came upon the ice cream man bob who makes amazing coffee. His children were there for a family reunion so we met the whole gang. I was sick of doing low mile days so I pushed a bit harder after meeting a south bounder who told me about the community. I got there to discover that everyone was gone. I hung my hammock and cooked.

Day 125 trapper John shelter 15 miles

Today was incredibly hot and humid. It was hard going with worn as he is just beginning his journey. There was a family at the shelter.

Day 124 Velvet rocks shelter 3 miles

Worn heel and I got up and crossed the border into NH. We had breakfast at Lou's and I was surprised to find out that my credit card had finally in the mail. It took me several hours to get to the hotel and then I headed back again. I bumped into peanut bitter and Jelly and chatted as they fed me more trail magic by the side of the road. It was a great day.  Later on we headed out to The Dartmouth College Hiking Club houses were I was reunited with Vipul. the club fed us an amazing dinner and prepped us for the whites. Resupplied and full of food we nero- out of town.

Day 123 Norwich 18 miles

I came down off the mountain today with a shoe repairman from Minnesota named Worn Heel. I met him while hitch hiking in from the trail from Rutland. We came off the trail today to find trail magic at someone's house. While we were eating banana bread, the owner of the house, greybeard came out and introduced himself. We were lucky to have found such a warm and accommodating family. Him and his wife, short and sweet, told us they had son who had thru hiked and they had just section hiked the .smokies the week prior with their daughter, who had just returned home from Russia. Short and sweet washed our clothes while we showered and cooked an amazing meal of pasta, omelette and salad. We were spoiled. It was wonderful after so many days of rain. Their daughter, Moxi had spent her last year in Russia and we had a lot of interesting conversations about linguistics and intercultural communication.