"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!