Day 134

Miles hiked: 21
Campsite: back at the dow villa hotel!
Weather: 50s and scattered showers
One word to describe the day: connected

Today is bittersweet. It's my last day in the Sierra's and I'm connecting up my desert footsteps! This means I have completed California, Oregon (mostly) and just have 250 miles left in Washington until this journey is officially completed. I kind of hurried through today's hike because I was so ready to get into lone pine for a shower and meal. But I did take a moment or two to appreciate nature and everything I've done. It's been a beautiful ride! I scratched a tree to sniff it but my nose was so stuffed I couldn't smell anything 🤪

I had a lovely dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I got the chicken curry. My server was so friendly. He gave me a fortune cookie when I checked out. I opened it up and there was no fortune in it! I asked him what that meant and he said sometimes no news is good news but that he would get me another cookie. He came back out with two cookies and manzanar pear or me 😊

I learned after the fact that manzanar is a place North of lone pine that grows apples and pears. But it also has a sad history of being one of the 11 places the US government made into a Japanese American internment camp. The ownens valley where lone pine is located has quite the history.

When I got back to my hotel room I opened up one of the cookies and couldn't believe what the fortune said. It said you are admired for your adventurous ways. There literally couldn't have been a better fortune inside there!Baca selengkapnya