July 27

It hasn’t felt so long since my last update. Time on the trail is weird.

We’re in Vermont right now like 60 miles away from New Hampshire. I hiked through Massachusetts in the past week as well.

Massachusetts was okay. It was very hot for the weather. We stopped in a town called Great Barrington and spent time at a brewery. Easy hitch in. Easy hitch out.

Dalton was a nice little town that the trail goes through. There is a trail angel that let’s hikers camp in his backyard but I opted to split a cheap hotel room with two other hikers.

The next day was hot. Really hot. I walked through a town called Cheshire and crossing the road, I saw a dollar general. I decided to get myself a soda and Gatorade. As soon as I stepped in, it started raining! I was stuck there for an hour or so waiting out the rain. Finally, I left and made it into Vermont as well as the 1600 mile mark.

Mount Greylock, in Massachusetts, is usually a really nice picture but it was super foggy that day for me… Boo!

We also did some cliff jumping which was a blast!

Vermont has been awesome! I went into a town called Bennington on a whim because I was tired of the heat. Something about so much sweat and everything being wet I think was mentally draining me. While in Bennington, two trail angels, Jim and Thalia, offered to take myself, Siren, and Pretzel to a beach the next day. We went and decided to take a zero. The motel was full but Thalia offered her house. We stayed with them and had an amazing time! Extremely sweet people! And what an unexpected trail magic!

More hiking.

Rocket’s dad’s cousin picked us up to go to Rutland. She and her husband, Mike, bought us lunch at the Yellow Deli. We stayed at the hostel as well. It is a deli owned by the Twelve Tribes. It was really nice!

Last night, we went to a pavilion to enjoy the evening and kicked a soccer ball around. I got a little too into it and my shoe slipped out from under me while juggling the ball. I’m thankful I didn’t land on my head but now have a really nasty pain in my lower back. Need to hike on!

Today, we are having zero luck with a hitch back to the trail and have been working for one since 9:30. We initially had one but another guy walked up and said the guy would get a ticket. The guy said he didn’t want to butt in to our business… Yep. Good job, jerk.

Anyway, too many pictures for the photo gallery again. So here’s the link:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZoN86Df9CPoKhbUt5