Day 23- jazz

I made it into Orville today after more pounding pavement and made the final decision to get a hotel room and break the 22 day streak of sleeping in my tent. I think the $55 room and the fact that it had a bathtub were the deciding factors. They also had a laundry facility at the hotel and a pool. It was too hard to talk myself out of it. It's strange the town has no cell service most likely due to the lightning storm. I got my room and got many other things in town I needed including a new watch as mine cracked and was leaking water. I grabbed my resupply boxes as well and re packed for the upcoming week. I will be well fed in this next stretch but my pack will be very heavy. After my chores I decided to have a night out in Orville. I had a gigantic dinner out of the supermarket deli and I found a local bar with live music. It was jazz night and I have to admit the band was pretty darn good. The audience was mainly 50+ but they sure liked to dance and it was very entertaining. Nights like these in small unique towns are always memorable with the interesting things that seem to happen and tonight was no different. Older people moving to the music is pretty funny and inspiring in a strange way. It's like the 80 year olds think they are 25 again and that's impressive. I will probably get up pretty early tomorrow and hike on to the next interesting town. I don't anticipate much good cell service out in the middle of nowhere so I apologize in advance for the posts coming in spurts, but if you ration them for 1 or 2 a night they should bridge the gaps.