I deemed myself worthy of a lunch break

I had the most difficult time falling asleep last night. It seems my afternoon coffee was keeping me wired up into the night. I was not the only one either two sections hikers by the names of "Breezer" and Emily were wide awake as well. I ended up talking with Emily for a bit. I finally decided to go for a walk to kill off my remaining energy. There was something about this walk that I thoroughly enjoyed.

I ended up finally falling asleep at 10:30PM, and I was still up at 5:45AM. I hit trail at 6:30AM with the realization that I had a long day ahead of me.

The trail today featured rocks, with the event sponsored by more rocks. It was absolutely painful and my ankles are becoming quite agitated because of it.

I have quickly learned that Maryland has little to no views along the trail, and the views that are there are due to open fields created by powerlines.

The Dahlgren Camping area in Maryland has free hot showers for those of you who would want one, I walked on because I knew I would get a shower at the hostel.

Roughly 13 miles into my day I came to the original monument to President George Washington. There are stairs going to the top of the monument where there's a nice view. I deemed myself worthy of a lunch break.

Afterwards I began the final 11 miles push to the hostel.

This was a rocky push, so I was practically brought to a halt in an attempt to navigate the boulder field the trail was going directly through.

I arrived at the hostel around 4:25PM at the end of a long and fatigued day. I immediately settled in, took a shower, and prepared to do some laundry.

I then began the long process of updating my journal. This thing takes a lot of work to update and maintain.

Tomorrow I shall meet Cookie at a shelter north of here.

This hostel is quite nice. The beds are comfortable and the owners are great people.

Well, time to sleep, man do I need it after the lack of sleep I got last night.

Tough life.

Good night, and good luck.

Kirby

Ga>ME 2008.