It was beautiful coming into town.
Today we visited the post office, resupply occurred, I ate a huge breakfast and we went to the CDTC birthday party.
We won this bear vault but donated it back.
Grants has been pretty.
We needed the zero day.
We did run into some surprises
Tomorrow we are back on the trail.
My legs have really been affected by the trail.
Other comments:
- The SureStay Hotel, the hiker favorite, is as close to I-40 and away from the city center and the trail as possible.
- It has a wonderful hot tub for soaking.
- Laundry and showers remain great.
Kind of a quiet, sleepy day. Did walk over nine miles. Met some people, including people we’ve been hiking in the same bubble since the start.
There were probably up to fifteen hikers in town. A lot thought they were going to the CDTC party but the access and publicity was not hiker oriented and when it came to walking 2-3 miles to the party at the end of the day they slept instead.
https://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/663552 —a trail journal entry from someone we barely missed on trail.