Lesson Learned

Unfortunately we learned our lesson the hard way. We mailed our first re-supply package to the post office when we should have mailed it to a local business. Due to not making it to the post office in time we had to extend our stay in town an extra 2 nights.

Expensive lesson.

We’ve been staying at a beautiful place that takes dogs in Killington. They are wonderful here and we’ve had a great time eating amazing Irish home cooking and getting to know the family that runs the place.

The Inn at Long Trail. Nestled in the surrounding mountains with a popular rock climbing wall in its backyard as well as being .5 miles off the Appalachian Trail. This place is quite literally built into the mountain. There’s a large amount of rock that the place is, quite literally, built onto. It even has a rock couch in the bar and the rock can be seen going outside the building by the side entrance. And rock built in along the back of the building and in the dining room.

They are all Irish here. One of the best pubs I’ve ever been to.

Don’t try calling it a Black and Tan. You’ll certainly be corrected. It’s a Half and Half.

Guinness Irish Stout with Skippy and a clover written on top.

We’re going to miss this place, but the trail is calling us back.

We look forward to going to the post office in the morning, having one more amazing complimentary a la cart breakfast and hitting the trail. This time we’re going to mail our additional items ahead to an outfitter that will hold our mail in the next town.

The only unfortunate thing to expect tomorrow is we’re going to be hiking into a thunderstorm. It’s supposed to be a good one and one of the biggest mountains in VT lays in our path. But, we’re hiking our own hike. Most hikers would just push through and put the miles in to get up and over. We’re not putting in major miles yet, so we’re going to settle into a shelter half way up the mountain and continue on the next morning. It’s going to be our coldest night so far as well. I guess tomorrow we’ll be “embracing the suck.” We really want this to be an enjoyable experience for each one of us, so taking a low miles day is better than putting in another no miles day. Plus we’d really like to take in a nice view on top of the mountain if we can.

It’s really interesting to see how each hiker does their hike. There’s plenty of hikers that have broken in their legs and put in 15-25 miles a day. Some even put in more than that. They’re usually a lot younger than us. Maybe we’ll get to that point in our hike, maybe not. We’re really enjoying each other and all the trail has to offer each day. To us that’s the most important part. We’ll go as far as we can and share it all with you. We hope his MS continues to not cause us any problems.

We take each day as they come and hopefully we’ll continue to live in the moment when our travels end. There’s something to be said about living this way. It’s very freeing.

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