Bennington Vt

Today we are making an impromptu stop at a house in Bennington. It was so random. Flora and I and Charlie Day and Wolverine had initially planned to stay at the shelter before the road to town and then come to town tomorrow, resupply, and leave the same day. But then we had some extra energy and someone said the words "Bennington Pizza House" and we decided to hike extra, hitch into town, and then hitch back to the trail and camp near the road.

Well we hitched in to the pizza place and then changed our minds about going back to the trail and started calling around to hotels, intending to split a room four ways. Flora found us a pretty good deal while she was chatting with the pizza lady and the owner or something overheard the conversation, so we started walking toward that motel. But then on our way we passed some guy sitting on his porch and he yelled at us to go to the house across the street, motioning that we should go around the back of this really hippie- dippie house. Hikers always go there he said. So we did. And what did we find but a barn with a pool table behind a house where the owners just let you shower and stay for free and use the kitchen and stuff. What luck! And we even found Cant Stop, icing his ankle on a couch. The owners are so nice! The house has all kinds of art and musical instrumets and there is even a nobo from Adelaide, Australia, with whom Wolverine can share stories from home.

It is amazing how things work out sometimes. :)