Day 10
Date: 03.05.2022
CDT Mile: Mile 157.8
Miles hiked: 18.5 Miles \ 29.6 km
We slept in today and stared heading out of Burro Mountain Homestead shortly after 7am. We is me, Dogbite, PlusOne, Simple, Wagon, Stumble Bee, Muenster Cheese and Farmhouse. It's a 6.5 miles hike down a dirt road to the highway, where we have to roadwalk along the highway 90 for 12 miles. Dogbite, Farmhouse, Simple and I will hike the road. The others will try to hitch the 12 miles into Silvercity. I would like to hike a continuous path from Mexico to Canada, even if that means I have to hike miles next to a road. And there will be many more road walks coming up... We hike fast as dirt roads are really easy to hike and arrive the highway 90 shortly after 10am. We break shortly while next to the highway and I can give some of my heavy backpack items to my friends hitching to town. My pack is now several kg lighter, feels wonderful 😁 The 2 girls get a hitch in no time, we haven't even finished the break yet. The 2 guys decided to hike along the Highway and try to get a hitch, which turned out to be very easy for them too. Well then it's us 4 left hiking along the road. We make a 'beer' sign, written with a pen on a seat pad and hold it up when a car is passing by, but we have not much luck... Maybe also because it's not even lunch time yet! The first few miles pass quickly. Also we are lucky again, as it is a cloudy day and not that hot. Perfect for a road walk which otherwise could turn out to be extremely hot! We break at the 'Drive of toilets', as we call the little road to a house which is decorated by many toilets (can only be found in the US!). We take a seat and rest (I mean they are already there, better than sitting on the ground right?!🤣). The last 5ish miles into Lordsburg however are tough. My feet start hurting and I am suuuuper glad when we finally reach the town and our hotel. This Hotel apparently is ghosted and very old. Looks like a museum but I like it! All of us squeeze in our room, have a beer and rest for a while, before we go for lunch. Our room is the smallest one and we even have to use the toilet seat to squeeze all of us in🤣 we go for mexican food and margarita's 😁 I can already feel the beer I sipped on and after food and one Margarita I'm done! It's only 4pm but I'm drunk and super tired. At 7pm my folks wake me up after a super deep sleep which felt like a 5 minutes nap but apparently was like a 3 hrs sleep. I guess I was incredible tired after this hike, the food and obviously the alcohol! There is a big group of CDT hikers in town and together we enjoy the evening in a bar (I had one Pina colada all night, couldn't drink or eat more!🙈😁)
Comments