Etna 8/18/10 O miles

We started the morning by laying around in the tent for a while. It felt good to waste time and not worry about miles. We did our laundry and lots of math planning for the next month and the finish of our hike. We have less than a month left and only about 500 miles to go. We headed downtown to get our box and do some shopping, ate lunch at a nice little diner and had sandwiches and split a great chef salad. We ran into everyone there and talked a while. Dude and Trouble were taking off, don't know if we'll catch them again. We were hoping to go to the library for research and to update the blog, but they were closed, fortunately that meant we got to take a nice nap in our cozy hotel room, the best nap in a long time. We woke up to Kiwi knocking on the door to say that they were heading to the brewery for dinner. Sounded good, so we got ready and met them there. We started with 6 people at our table and had 9 by the time dinner was over. It was a really good time. Jean, the section hiker we had met the Day before picked up the tab for all of us! Wow, trail magic! We stopped by the store on the way back and grabbed him a thank you card and left it at his door. We had a couple more drinks and made phone calls at the room. -CM