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Pic of the day!

Starting a Steamboat favorite...Hummingbird and I will select a picture of the day. Your job is to comment with a caption. We'll select best caption and change title - with full Credit!  A couple of make up days are coming your way. 

Greenwood Lake, NY

Just might seem early for a day off, but the WEATHER. Record heat + beautiful location on a lake + awesome town = ZERO!

We're sitting now at 819.9 so we've hit a couple milestones: over 800 miles and under 1,400 to go. A couple more hundred and it'll be more done and less to go. We've certainly increased our production with a tight confidence correlation. Aches and pains rear their ugly heads on a daily basis. Short steps still cures until all is forgotten (short steps will never cure hunger).

We took a mile side trail into town last night in hopes of laundry and wifi. A place to stay would have been a bonus. It was! We scored a room at the Lindon Motel complete with pool, paddle boat and a 14 mile lake for a nice swim. We are now stuck because the of all the reasons mentioned earlier. 

Cat's Ledge - unexpected surprise!

This one is called the Lemon Squeezer. I say "Cucumber Squasher". 

Graymoor Spiritual Life Center 41°20'50"N 73°55'9" W 500ft

779.5 Listening to the church bells as we lay down in our tents. We're camping at the GSLC because it came highly recommended. We should have come in earlier and we could have checked it out. Instead, tired, hungry and in the dark. Kind of our MO the week. Our most productive week on the AT:

16.3

13.5

18.8

14

18.1

19.9

18.8

I guess that day off in Great Barrington paid off (2 states ago). Days are getting shorter so new batteries for the headlamps are in order. 

Lots of roots and rocks. The roots are roots except when they aren't. 

Heard there is a shower here. See in the morning. 

The deli run continues: 

Tony's Deli night 1

Pizza delivered to the campsite last night

Burgers and shower by some lake resort mid-day today and

Breakfast at a deli in the morning (potential)

Pawning New York 41°34'59" N 73°35'30" W 460ft

The "Deli Run" has begun!  We've been hearing about it for quite sometime and now it's here. New York doesn't allow hitchhiking so we had to walk to our first (a killer .6 off the trail). Worth it! This place is open until  midnight and opens at 4am.  Two dollars a person to camp. Six pack of Bud-oops, American. 

The deli run supposedly allows us to walk through NY and maybe NJ with very little food. That'll be tough for us after near mal-nourished episode up in MA. 

Tonight, we're sleeping between a speeding Amtrak and a highway. The price of convenience. 

We had a couple obstacles on the way. 

Nappy

Also, a little wary of tropical storm Hemine working it's way up the coast It'll bring rain for sure.