Another continental breakfast!
The allure of the hotel beds, showers and sheets was too much to pass up and we wound up staying 2 nights, 1 day, in Julian, which is a full "zero day".
Woke up in time for the 7:30am breakfast downstairs.
I think this is the nicest place I've ever stayed, in my entire life. Quaint, cozy, comfortable. They even let me have 4 packets of oatmeal from the breakfast bar.
Caught our pre-arranged ride to Kick Off back with Okie Girl and Julie at noon. Met their dogs Tilly and Little Dog and enjoyed their company. THANK YOU a million Julie and Okie Girl!!!!
Kick Off is an annual event held on the last weekend of April at Lake Morena. It is made up of thru-hikers, past thru-hikers, future thru-hikers, trail angels, volunteers, and friends & family of the above.
We arrived at 1:30pm, went to our designated campsite and immediately set up camp, wanting to get all of our camp chores out of the way so that we could just relax and hang out.
We found our old crew we had started with at Scout and Frodo's house, Patrick (now going by "The Manchurian"), "Mr. Green", Kat... and also finally met up with Carrot, who was in San Diego for a bit healing an achilles injury, which was exciting!
It was quite a little reunion.
At Kick Off they feed hikers breakfast and dinner - which is awesome - and on Friday night we had bean and cheese burritos in the field. It felt like summer camp, at dusk, where you don't really know anyone, but you sort of do, and you're really amped, and excited but disoriented?
Played cards, drank beer, got to know some of the people we would be spending this grueling summer with.
Also met a surprising number of people who are from/spent time in Israel, which is very interesting.
One of the best parts of this journey is (and I know this sounds cheesy) the people, and particularly, meeting people from around the world. A man named Gideon in our campsite was born and raised in South Africa and lives in Israel AND was in the army there. He is also a Israeli cop. All of the people we've ultimately ended up hanging around have a great sense of humor, and that is V E R Y important. I need that energy around in order to complete the trail, I think. People that get it.
Sorry for the delay in posts, I do not have service at Lake Morena and we just spent 3 days there. Having Verizon is usually a good think, but in Southern California, it is proving to be more than irritating.
It is hideously hot here - like, an oven.
Missing the Portland dampness right about now.
1 comment:
Are you guys carrying cards with you on your hike or were they at the party?
Curious what your downtime consists of other than sleeping.
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