Day 7, 6-21

We woke up this morning, stumbled into breakfasting, tanked up on water and did our second water-toasting, and then packed up. Everything on, and away we went. After a while of trucking along, we realized that I had forgotten my bandanna. Probably somewhere at Cheese Factory. Once again, the assessment voted for moving forward. So no more bandanna, and I lost my status as a frood fellow. Which is never good.
We took it easy today, I'm not sure how far we went, but it wasn't that far. Maybe this was our 9-10 mile day. At about lunch time, we sack out and start to eat. Right before we move on, a lady named Sue swung into where we were eating, sacked out, and started munching on stuff. She was a school teacher from Fl (there were a lot of people from Fl hiking...I don't know why that is.), and was just taking a week or so to bum around. This was her second day in. We talked movies and literature a little, and meandered around the conversational spectrum until her co-hiker showed up. We spoke a little with them, but at this point, C and I were feeling ready to go, so we went.
This was a good day of conversation for Caleb and I. To this point, we'd kept each other entertained with each others lives, opinions, etc, and that was fun. It took a turn for the serious on this day with careers, future possibilities, etc taking the foreground. Good stuff.

Awesome view. Don't know of what...













We're sad. No bandannas...we don't know where our towels are...












But we have carrots! And that makes our life happy.












Caleb's Heels. He always gets those blisters, and I don't know why. But with some TLC they cleared up a lot, and I don't think they ever bothered him excessively on the trail.










Back of my knee. I'm not sure if it was from the leg brace rubbing, or if I stumbled into some poison ivy, but it wasn't the greatest. Oh well. It got better fairly quickly once I was able to let it breathe more.