1185 miles

Wow, is it muggy out this morning! I thought I'd check out the Bears Den Hostel to break up my long day of puds (pointless ups and downs) coming up. Now, I wish I'd gotten here last night! It's a very comfortable and welcoming place. Lodging opportunities seem to get more luxurious as I head south: Maine shelters are plain lean-tos (usually older), but now the shelters have lofts and decks and porch swings and balconies! Maine still has the privies with more character, though. ;-)

"No emotion, or none but the deepest, the most unguessed-at: a ground bass of contentedness, like the hum of traffic that lulls the city-dweller to sleep, or like the silence of the night to countryfolk."
-- J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace