Day 146: NH, oh wait. Nope, back to VT

Linda made us a delicious pancake amd sausage breakfast this morning before we set off.for.NH. We cannot say enough about how wonderful the VT AT community has been.

On the hike we met a blind golden retriever puppy who was about the most excitable dog I've ever seen. He sniffed you out and knew exactly when he could burst into puppy mode and jump all over you. It was great.

Then we got to detour around a hornet nest, thanks for the heads up to whoever left that note on the trail.

Soon enough we made.it.to elm street, the beginning of the long road walk to town. Immediately we came across a cooler.stocked.with cokes. Just what we needed for the hot walk. A few houses down we ran into Betsy, who had watermelon and banan bread for us. Her son was a thru hiker and she organized the huge list of trail angels we saw at the farm a few days back. We were walking down the final promenade of VT trail magic.

Then we walked over the river and I to New Hampshire.  We just walked to new hampshire. It never gets old. Always a surprise to contemplate this distance.

So what then followed was the usual attempt.to resupply cheap. This time featuring a bus ride. We got to price chopper and after resupply we realized the bus was not.going to get us to the hardware store in time to get fuel. So we.tried hitching. But nobody was going our way. A bit of panic set in as we tried to decide the best course.of action.

So we started calling the trail angels from that list. We reached Warren who agreed to come all the way to West Lebanon to get us and he had to go to a store down there anyway. What he was getting was 30 packs of Coke! He was the same the fellow who had the ice chest full of.coke back in VT!

We stopped.at the Norwich Inn to sample their IPA and buy Warren a brew too. Then at the market we got to try another 6 pack of IPA for the house. So many local beers!

Warrens house is amazing with views over the towns valley. He has a perfectly fluffy small poodle that Becca is in love with. Also, pocket spider, who we have been hiking near since basically day one, has been here a few days. She got Lyme disease and is getting used.to the antibiotics before she tries.to get back on the trail.

We are again so grateful to the VT angels.
We love vermont.