"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
-Teddy Roosevelt
Start: Holiday Inn Express
Finish: Holiday Inn Express
Today: 0 mi
Total: 229.4 mi
We woke up around 6:30am. Heather got up and took a shower while I lay in bed and watched the news. As Heather came out of the bathroom and I got up from bed I heard the weatherman say that it was going to be really stormy today. Completely joking around, I said "Zero!" You could see something click in Heather's eyes. Oh no! Nobody likes to hike in the rain but Heather was convinced we would get dumped on and wanted to stay in the hotel but I hated the idea of not moving forward. We slept a little more and even ate breakfast before making our final decision.
The clouds looked pretty threatening so I made a deal with Heather. She promised to give me a bunch of 20+ mile days if we took the zero and stayed dry. We shook on it and I was already fast asleep and didn't wake until around 2pm. Sleeping through the entire night plus such long naps tells me how drained we must have been.
After waking up I noticed that while there were some dark clouds in the sky, it didn't appear as if it had rained. I teased Heather about this a bit and said that I could totally see her going to the roof with the hose making it "rain" outside our window so we wouldn't feel the day was wasted. But an hour later the rain came and even brought some thunder and lightning. All I know is I won't be putting the weather channel on tomorrow morning or mention the word zero. I might even go find the master valve controlling the water on the second floor of the hotel so neither of us hear showers in the morning and envision rain storms!
~Daddy Long Legs
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