June 20 Mile 797

Gnats Gnats!! Biting Gnats. Got up before 6AM and they were waiting for us. Not nice on Fathers Day. So we got out of there as quickly as possible for a relatively short hiking day of 12 miles. It was a nice hiking day to the road to Buena Vista. Passed thru the ruins of an old African-American community that existed in the late 1800s til the 1930s. Had various informational markers, which is very unusual on the trail. One talked about making "ash cakes" where you put the cake dough in the ashes of the fire and the cake cooks and the ashes fall off . Said they were delicious. Any cake sounds good to me! Got to the road, called a shuttle driver who's name we picked up earlier and then on to Buena for one night in a motel and a Fathers Day dinner at Burger King! It was terrific!!!
Later that evening had a scare. I was staring at my huge quarter size blister on my left foot by side of my bed. I got up quickly to do something, and my foot hit Cisco's trekking pole. The tip of his pole tore off my blister! Ow!!
As it turned out this was a blessing. After a few minutes of pain, no more blister issue.
Cisco is a big soccer and World Cup fan, so going into a motel is an extra treat as we can watch the games .


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