Day 4- The Town Essentials

Today started off normal, I woke up in a tent again, but this time it was in a campground. Therefore I made use of all their amenities. I spent 30 minutes in the bathroom using the hand dryer to try my tent, shoes, and socks because it rained again last night. From here I walked to highway 101 to hitchhike into Forks, Washington. It took a good 30 minutes to get a ride but once I did they took me to the only place open in town at 7, a coffee shop. I tried to order enough things to call it a breakfast but my only option was coffee and donuts. So I had multiple donuts and began my chores. I did laundry at the laundromat and since I wanted to wash the clothes I was in I had to make good use of the tables and chairs to spare passerbys the sight of me changing. From here I went and bought 5 days of groceries. Then right after I had paid for them I found out my package to forks had shown up after all and I had to pick it up between 11 and 12. So begrudgingly I returned all my groceries except a few candy bars and headed to the library to upload photos and check on my social life. My last chore in town before getting lunch, a beer and hitting the trail again was to fix a broken pole on my tent. I went to the hardware store and they helped me with what they had. I now have an industrial strength solid fiberglass apparatus holding my tent up. Finally I ate pizza, charged my stuff and was out of town and back on the trail after some crafty hitchhiking. As I entered another section of Olympic national park I found out why its a rainforest. While walking through the Bogachiel rainforest it drizzled the entire time. Finally I got a chance to test out my new pack cover! As for the walk, being colorblind I am not that good at the color green but with so much green around I think I have learned to see it. Green moss, green ferns, green grass, everything all around was green. It didn't even look like part of this world. I think the green caused me to eat 5 days of snacks in 4 hours as well. I finally stopped and a camped next to the Bogachiel river.