We hiked Segment after Segment. It was a nice day of hiking. Not as hot but plenty of mosquitoes. After each Segment, we would take a break and visit and laugh and joke around. 

Around noon the sun finally came out and we were all able to take our wet tents out and dry them in a short amount of time. It was here that I forgot my head net to protect me from mosquitoes. Dang it. Spirit was up to her usual antics of falling off a log she went to sit on. “Spirit, what the hell are you doing?” I had to go and unhook her from the briar. In process I was hooked and jabbed. Ugh!

After hiking through mosquito-infested Segments, Spirit found her extra bug net and gave it to me to use. I was getting tired of having to lather on all the bug lotion. 

After one horrible field hike that was overgrown, we sat down in the sun by the side of the road to decide where to find camp. Tumbler went and looked and didn’t find anything. When Spirit and I sat down we were done for the day. But when I heard about how many miles we had tomorrow to get to a campground and restaurant, I said let’s go 2 more miles. I asked Spirit if she could do it and she said yes and we were up and on our feet and moving.

1.9 miles later we were all in. The last field we walked through hadn’t been mowed. Grass and flowers over our heads. There was a slight indication of where the trail was and a few trail posts to show us the way.

We found Ratman and Tumbler sitting across the road by a person’s mailbox. They told us Spirit and I should go and ask if we could camp in the yard because we looked so pathetic. In unison we said no unison. So, up they went and knocked and banged on the door but alas no one was there. We went back across the road to the trailhead and set up camp, had supper, and went to bed after doctoring my sore knee and Spirit’s did her sore feet. 

Deer snorted at us all night long for blocking their path. Where the heck did my earplugs go.