South Fork Kern River - Kennedy Meadows General Store 6/18/10 5 miles

Great Day! Woke up, took it easy getting out of camp. Had to walk only 4 miles to get to "town." The trail was nuts! Pretty flat, but it was hardly marked and really frustrating to follow. Supposedly there was a road we were supposed to walk on for a mile, but we never found it. We came to another one, though it was not the right one. Luckily, it was the shortcut to heaven, on a desert mountain. Got to the store and it had everything a hiker could ever ask for..shower, laundry, mail drop, sweet letter, air plane bottles, groceries, beer, snack bar, resupply, snack bar again and happy hour and free dinner of burritos, veggies, shrimp, peanuts, chips, guacamole and the list goes on!!! Free!!! Not to mention all of the people we met...Chocolate Bandito, Christina and Talent Man, Crutchy, Pony, Sky, Douie and still more. They were all in the wilderness around us, but we didn't run into any of them until now. We also met the coolest people that started in Walker's Pass like us, Laura and Paul. They started their hike as sailing down from Canada, oh yeah, their 6 year sail and hike around the world. And we thought we were crazy! They are older of course, but look to be good friends. All of this happened on a porch at a general store at 6,000 feet in CA. Emailed, waited on the phone, didn't happen, pitched a tent out back. Shew! Goodnight! CM