Day 24- heaven

Today was a tough day but it ended in heaven. I woke up with 21 miles to go and I wanted to get in early in the afternoon. I got up and was strong even after my long day yesterday. I did my usual 3 miles and then ate a breakfast of granola at the ranger station. I then put in another 8 miles and made it to an rv park where I met some people walking their dogs. They were so interested in my trip that I gave them my blog. They even offered to take me to their house, do laundry, eat, and shower. But I had to say no because I wanted to make it to hiker heaven. A little ways into the second half of my walk I saw gnar who had not taken the yellow legged frog detour, so I hadn't seen him in a couple days. We walked together, but both hit the wall with about 3 miles left. We sat down, took a break and both finally decided to push on. It was interesting, we walked through a hundred yard tunnel under the highway and then through the amazing Vazquez rocks. Finally we got to a fork in the trail and we took the one that looked like it would get us to the town fastest, not the pct(trail). BIG MISTAKE. we walked 4 miles extra, and did not get any closer to town. We were on the right road just a long way away. After already walking enough to have gotten to the saufleys, we finally got picked up by a nursing home bus. They took us to the center of town. We still had a mile left and got picked up by a hiker who was driving over because she lived close. Talk about lucky!

We were finally at hiker heaven. The first thing that happen was Donna saufleys gave us the tour. She said pick out any cot, their yard was covered with event tents and cots inside, she said she would do our laundry. It must be heaven If someone else is doing laundry. There was a shower, bathrooms, food, tons of hiker box goods, and the best of all, lots of hikers. This place is awesome. There are too many hikers here to try to name or describe them all, but I have the best hiker name for sure. I don't even know where to begin about describing this place. Just awesome!