After check out at the Motel 6 around 11, I walked about a mile to where Dion and Acorn have renter a trailer. Super cheap ($15) for a bed. When I arrived everyone, Dion, Acorn, Fainting Goat, Chris were sitting on the couch and floor with a faded look in there eyes. Guess the road walk must have taken it out of them too. In the bedrooms backpacks were exploded onto each of the beds. Now was a good time to ship away gear that wasn't being used since there was a post office a couple blocks east of the trailer. We all wanted to try our sleeping setups, so we beg can inflating our mats and pillows in the living room and laying out like a open can of sardines. Kind of made me miss having my inflatable neoair. Dion was on the phone with someone outside concocting some slackpack back into town.
A slackpack is where you get a ride or hitch out ahead of where you are on the trail and walk back with minimal gear in your pack, like only carrying food or water on a non-rainy day. There was an extra seat open in the car riding out about 8 miles so I thought I'd take advantage of it. I was all walking on hard pavement anyway. You have to save you're legs, and it not like it was really trail anyway. The ride came from someone Dion met on the CDT another year staying in Silver City, super nice lady, but her car felt like it was riding on the rims the whole cruise. The hike took us 3 hours. Not much was seen except a bunch of locals living in their homes, a very dead rabbit, and some brief rain.
Returning to the trailer I found two new hikers, Bad Camper, Englishman who's trying to start his own backpacking company atom(ic) packs; and Dundee, who I met on the PCT near the beginning of the sierras, a small world or at least thru hiking world. We all made our own food and shared at night, one made an entire tray of cheesy nachos, another made a steak, pudding, an old plate of potatoes and eggs from earlier that morning, I had a tray of veggies with ranch dressing. I ate so much I crashed early for an early out in the morning. Everyone else hung in the living room chatting while I went through my pictures dosed off.