Hayduke Trail Day 22

I took a zero day today (zero trail miles day, a day off), my first of the trip on Day 22.  My body felt good, but I’m currently two days ahead of my schedule, and it’s probably not a bad thing to give myself a break.  I try not to work off of a schedule too much, but it’s sort of necessary for this trip since I have two permits later in the trip that I have to start on specific days.  Otherwise, I might have just ended up finishing up the trip a little bit early.

 I did all my town chores today and even heard there were two other hikers in town.  I went to all the normal hiker-type haunts (restaurants and bars) and couldn’t find them, so I concluded they were just a myth.  When I reconnected my phone to the internet, Google decided to delete all my offline journal entries for the last week of the trail, syncing to the cloud and deleting my offline files.  I ended up having to rewrite all of them, a few thousand words.  Pretty frustrating.  Everything else pretty much worked out, though.  I got a lot of good real food and got everything else I needed in town.  I also met some awesome people on the way.  It’s nice to just talk to people, tell your story, and have open conversations like that.