Journey Day 498 | CDT Day 161
11/21/87
Nasty hangover, woodpecker cause early rising. See to tasks. Feeling bad, organize, walk to post office, take care of business. Back, do laundry, watch football after burgers at cafe. Meet Lester's daughter, grandson Thomas returns with us. We munch cookies from BG friend Debbie, watch TV, Nebraska-Oklahoma football game. Write letters, organize, wash, then hang to dry with sleeping bag, tent.
Cold forebodings of morning give way to another hot day. Lester keeps house baking, so I hike upstairs, open windows and cool off. Thomas joins me. Try to organize food from Debbie, AT friend Clark, munch a bit. After football, omelets, I go for bread. Back, munch more, Sheridan, Mike back. I update my journal, read Washington Post, prepare mentally to head out again. Omelets with ice cream, more TV, then crash.
11/22/87
Up early, ramen for breakfast. Packed and bid farewell to Lester, who never gets up. Walk by Pop's house, adios to Pop. Then down road, to his son Mark Devlin's home, farewell to him. Then on down the road, a few trucks passing. Get to intersection, turn, soon taking lunch at windmill. Luckily no one's home. Rugged pinon and juniper and cactus and scrub surroundings. My socks covered with stickers after walk to windmill.
Back on road, views of Allegre Mountain, surrounding ridges near the Divide. Cross the Divide without knowing it, possibly for the last time. Mark passes on the way to get tires. Desolate hiking, but nice. Few cars pass on gravel road. Decide to camp. Hike into pinon and juniper forest, Mark passes again, but I can't get his attention. Cook, read, crash. Another site too close to the trees.
