I slept at water cache #1 about 7 miles outside of Lordsburg NM. The wind is incessant and although cooling during the day at night it kept waking me up. Finally at 4:45 AM which is predawn I got up and hiked out.
Town days are big things in hiker life. I had made a long list of all the things I needed to do in town. As I hiked towards town I was wondering if I could get a shower at the Econolodge. As luck would have it I met Radar when I arrived on Sunday. He is delivering water to all the caches. He is also Peru’s partner who I helped with some technical details of the CDT water report. So he knew about me. Well today he offered his room and his shower while he was out on his water run. In the shower I washed not only was myself but I also hand washed all my clothes and put them on wet (they are very quick drying polyester). In addition he had a spare USB cable and a lip-stick rechargeable battery. He next said that as part of signing up for the shuttle to the terminus I had not gotten my “goodies” which included a pair of CDT socks. Shower – Luck, cable – double luck, battery – triple luck, and even socks – quadruple luck. How lucky could I be! After that I left, walked across the street to a MacDonalds and had a quarter pounder and oodles of Coca-cola. Lordsburg you put a smile on my face.
