Hamburg, Penn., zero mileage day, Wednesday April 30, 2014 — In bad weather motels and hostels attract hikers. Currently between Hamburg and Port Clinton I’ve identified five thru hikers and five section hikers – all ducking the storm. In hiking parlance, we’ve formed a bubble.
As luck would have it, at breakfast this morning I ran into a Lockheed Martin retireeI met during my Shenandoah hike in October. It was old home week.
Trips to Wallmart and Cabela’s took care of resupply. I needed a little food and to replace a polar fleece I’d sent home thinking that warmer weather was bound to encroach on the calendar. It’s still too cold at night to take chances.
A few of us followed up with lunch at the hiker favorite hotel in Port Clinton and a side stop at the Peanut store. That’s an 80-year-old candy store – the old fashioned kind that makes a lot of its own candy on site. Sure glad I ate a giant chicken pot pie for lunch before walking into that place.
With all the sugar I’m eating out here, I’m half expecting to be a diabetic by the time I’m done.
The weather today has been gross. Avoiding it has been a blessing.
It’s good you found some folks to talk with. Too bad for the nasty weather. It is taking its time to get out of our neck of the woods. My grass is growing taller and calling me. Too wet to mow it. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not.
Good hiking.
Tomorrow is forecast to be clear and warm!
Good luck on that grass.