Sardine Creek - Bridgeport 7/15/10 0.5 miles

Woke up about 6:30am to get to the road at Sonora Pass early hoping to catch some commuters. It was a 31 mile hitch into town. We sat for about an hour. Rick and Julie were there too. A blue Geo Metro pulled up going the wrong way. He turned around and took us all the way nto town. As we were leading up, a truck picked up our friends. "Geeps", our ride, had been hiking, but the trail he was on had river crossing that were too high to do solo. We picked up another hiker on the way down. He then turned around and took two more back to the top. Sixty miles totally out of his way. Got into town, went to the post office and got Mary's awesome box. It had all kinds of toys in it and two magazines for us. Got our room with a beautiful yard at the Silver Maple. Got our laundry and ate lunch at Pop's Gallery. Kristi got some bad news about her Mom and had us both worried for the rest of the day trying to figure out if she would be okay and if we needed to make plans to come home. We went to the library and relaxed some. I drank sic airplane bottles, compliments of Mary, and we had dinner at the Sportsman's Pub. We made many more phone calls and slept well in our cozy hotel room. -CM