Day 151
I opened my eyes this morning and the sun was rising outside my window behind the movie screen. I laughed. It was so beautiful and I was so dumbfounded that this is my reality that I just had to give a little chuckle. I got up and ate breakfast then got underway.
12 miles was another town and there were horrible storms projected all day today. My goal was to haul butt and make it there before the storms hit.
People were being friendly to me today. The newspaper posted a picture of me on Facebook with a description of what I am doing. People always react differently to me when the understand what they are seeing.
The views were beautiful too. I passed one mountain that just looked like a cougar was going to come down and attack me at any given second. Not the good kind of cougar that can be found at Johnny’s Hideaway in Atlanta but the cougar that is also known as a mountain lion. As much as I’d love to have a mountain lion story to tell about my walk, I just don’t think I actually want to have to deal with all that.
Beautiful part of the country. I roll into Del Norte and the owner of a local brewery stopped me and told me to come grab a free dinner there tonight. Not a bad welcome right there. I walked through town pretty quickly and headed for a hostel that I’d seen on googlemaps. The owner was awesome. We talked and then he told me if I gave him a $20 that he’d take me to lunch with it and we can call it even.
So we went to all you can eat mexican for lunch. Yes they have that here. Yes. Seriously. Mike was cool and we swapped stories over ALL YOU CAN EAT MEXICAN!
We went back and I laid down for a nap. Just before, I had to ask Amanda for help. Amanda was the woman who came to me in a gas station in walsenburg and wanted to show her support. I had a package that was in Alamosa. 2 towns backwards. Long story. Anyways, I needed a ride to get this package. It was all of my cold weather clothes. It gets really cold at night here and when I wake up I’ve been freezing.
I messaged her but fell asleep on accident before I heard back. I woke up to her showing up at the hostel. I got up quickly and we rode over 30 miles to the post office and 30 miles back. She was in a hurry to get to work. She wanted to help that bad. I’m so thankful. It was very valuable to me to have this package. I feel like if everyone in the world just acted like family that we would be ok. Just a thought…
Anyways, i was back at the hostel and still didn’t see any other people so I was a little bored. I walked down to the brewery for dinner. I was told they had good pizza. They did. The waitress Danielle was super cute and didn’t charge me for my pizza because of what I’m doing. It feels so good when that happens. To be acknowledged for something that you put so much effort into. I am very appreciative of all the kindness I am witnessing. I can’t wait to continue to pass it on to others.
I walked back to the hostel and still no one. I turned the radio on and found a great station. Danced alone to stevie wonder then decided to be productive and write this blog. Now back to singing and dancing in a hostel by myself…