Day 152

Day 152
Friday 7/31/09

Weather:
Rain all day

Today's Hike:
Green Mountain House Hostel - 0.0 miles

It is hard to find the words to describe what it feels like to sit still for two days when your body is use to walking 10 - 12 hours a day. By the end of day one your nerves twitch and you can't keep your legs still. It's what we image the very definition of restless leg syndrome to feel like. By day two not only are you restless, but you become stir crazy. Insanity. So why take more then a day off? Rain, rain, and more rain. We have started a pattern we can not seem to break. Take a day off, our day off is nice, then our departure date is rain and severe thunderstorms. Maybe we shouldn't take anymore days off???!!?? Yeah right.

We had all intentions on leaving today. The forecast said it would rain until early evening, so we hung around the hostel all morning and were ready to leave after lunch. By then, Jeff (the hostel owner) was dealing with some plumbing issues so we patiently waited around for another hour or so. By 2pm the plumbers left and Storm asked Jeff when it would be a good time to leave, then Jeff replied "why not stay another night?" Are you kidding? So we did some quick planning, and came up with a schedule that would still permit us to hike into Rutland by August 3rd. They'll be long days, but doable.

So here were are, another night in luxury. Tomorrow's forcast is sunny; a good forcast for hiking twenty-miles.