"Anger is as a stone cast..."

"...into a wasp's nest."
-Pope Paul VI

August 13, 2001

Did Kent, CT.

I did my laundry for the first time since Hanover, NH -> 19 days.  It makes a big difference having clean clothes.

On the way into Kent, CT, I passed over Caleb's Peak.

The only thing I remember about Caleb's Peak was that as I sat down to eat a snack, a yellow jacket stung me.

This made me mad.  I followed it to it's nest, a hole in the ground, and poured the rest of my stove fuel down the hole and lit it.

Guess I would need to find stove fuel in Kent.

I was also trying to get new water drops, since I had been using iodine for awhile, and it isn't good to use it long term.  I had ordered Aqua Mira from CampMor and had it shipped to Kent...

CampMor sent my water purification drops to the post office via UPS.  Obviously, it got returned.

I told them to send it to Vernon, NJ and got the postage fee waived.

Rain, rain, rain.  Supposed to get sunny.

"You don't need to know how to work a telephone..."

"...switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights."

-Scott McNealy

August 12, 2001

A 21.6 mile day.  It rained from 6 am to 9 am so I slept in.

iron bridge over Housatonic River

Let me set the stage for what comes next.

I had not had a shower since July 25 when I was in Hanover, NH.

Being August 12, it has been well over two weeks of hot weather with no shower.  I'm even offending myself with my own smell.

And then I came upon the Falls Village Dam:

Falls Village Dam

And after crossing the dam I find an ivy-covered wall with a shower head:

I got a shower at the hydro-power plant.  They had an outdoor shower there.

Those are my socks and shirt hanging up there.  Don't worry, my shorts stayed on the whole time!

I wrung out my shirt about a dozen times before the water came out mostly clear.  It was so good to be clean again!