8/8/12 – 1601 miles
I spent yesterday morning lounging around the motel, enjoying the time off from hiking. It was a short walk across the street where I could resupply and sample a couple of restaurants. The motel offered a continental breakfast but I was more interested in bacon and eggs than cereal. To top off the morning I walked a block to a Dunkin Donuts and secured a coffee and a half-dozen glazed rings to eat out on the patio.
The night before, I received a text from Kleenex sayings she would be in town the next afternoon and asked that I reserve her a room at the motel. I checked and found out that I got the last room for two days. It seems there was a conference of some sorts going on and everything in town was booked. I only had a single room but we were able to obtain a roll-a-way bed so she would have a place to sleep.
And so the trail once again brought us back together for a couple of days. We washed clothes together, ate dinner and breakfast together, and caught up on the Olympics on TV. This morning we took the motel shuttle back to the trail and climbed four miles to the VT border, paused for a picture, and continued on to Congdon Shelter for the night.