May 24:Angel to Angel

We woke up to another chilly morning and quickly headed out to the trail. The first few miles were road walking since the trail winds right through the heart of Agua Dulce. The sky looked like it was threatening to let loose- whether that be rain, hail, or snow we couldn't be sure. Luckily it held out and we sailed along the trail staying warm as long as we were moving.

Oddly enough we were heading to another Trail Angel's house. Joe and Terri Anderson are 24 miles down the trail and LOVE having hikers stop through. Not only do they feed you dinner AND breakfast (when we were there they probably fed 50+ hungry hikers), but they have what they call their manzanita forest behind their house that has tons of nooks and crannies for hikers to camp in. They also manage several water caches along the way as well. We rolled into the second one, dubbed "The Oasis Cache," which also happened to be in a Manzanita grove, just as Joe and a handful of other hikers rolled in to restock it. They showed up with water, soda and beer, and we enjoyed an A&W Rootbeer while sitting in lawn chairs and being watched by inflatable birds, monkeys, and flamingos. It was awesome!

We rolled into their house just as dinner was about to be served (score!), and this is how I can tell my body is in hiking mode: I, Jess, ate a cheeseburger and a huge taco salad plate without batting an eye. Normally I wouldn't make it through the taco salad. It was amazing! And I wasn't really even that full. So all you people out there who told me to make sure I eat (julie), just know I'm being taken care of :).

Since it still looked like rain, we slept under our tarp (for like the second or third time since we started) amid many a hiker in our corner of the Manzanita forest.

Total Miles: 478.6
Miles Today:24.2
Camp 27:Anderson's Manzanita Forest

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