Day 21: Zero at Upper Goose Pond Cabin

this place is awesome. we didnt hike ar all today, it is like a vacation within a vacation. a caretaker stays at the cabin for a week, cooks pancakes (ours were blueberry) and makes coffee in the morning. they have canoes you can take out, we went to a little island and had lunch (rice with veggies). our new friends Trump (19 years old) and Mark Trail (old man, went to the same high school as Chad, small world!) joined us out on the island. we drank some scotch and talked for hours. we played in the canoes, raced, laughed a lot and are back on shore now. caretaker is making us all a spaghetti dinner! lots of hikers coming in for the night. learning some new card games so we can play something other than rummy and scat. we will leave early tomorrow and hope to get 10 miles in before lunch.