Campground to new campground (all no names) - 11.8 miles

Total - 347.2 miles

Today was a weird day. Woke up to pouring rain around 5:30am. I wanted McDonald’s and I saw that it wasn’t letting up for 2 hours so my instinct was I would rather be wet in McDonald’s than not have McDonald’s. So I decided to pack up and head out in the rain. I’m from Washington all we do is do things in the rain. I packed everything but my rain fly and tent in my bag (packed those on the outside) and headed out. It wasn’t cold but it was wet (obviously). I cruised with a thick layer of sludge on my shoes and everything soaked to the bone. Gorgeous views of misty mountains and fog covered hills. I truly enjoyed it. Pulled into McDonald’s around 8:15ish and immediately got 2 McGriddles and two hash browns. Met a kid (19) who slept under the under pass and basically woke up to a river. Tent soaked, quilt soaked, down jacked soaked. This was last night so I know that was absolutely brutal. He apparently then moved over to the gas station and slept there which is insane with everything wet but he said he was fine. I tried to dry my soaking wet tent in the McDonald’s and I truly feel so bad about the mess I made with the dirt and water everywhere. Later I tried to clean it up with napkins. Around 10ish the crew showed up and started wrecking havoc on the McDonald’s workers (basically just ordered an absurd amount of breakfast). Pct hikers trickled in throughout this. I think I was delusional at this point and fed up with the bullying from Caleb and the bard that I made a fatal mistake in my chirp back to Caleb. I’m going to explain this in such a horrible way and I apologize before. Caleb chirped me and I got fed up so I said “I’m going to bill cosby your ass.” What I fatally mistook was messing up bill cosby and OJ Simpson so instead of saying I’m going to kill you I said I’m going to drug and etc as we all know. Brutal mistake as then instead of doing the chirping, I got chirped even worse than before. Now they want to call me Ms. Cos(pee) as I said that stupid joke and as you guys know I wanted to be called chickpea but every male I tell it to changes it to chickpiss but I was pooping a lot so it got changed to chickpoop which changed to chickshit. So now combining bill cosby and chickshit/pee turned into ms. Cospee. That was decided later at camp tho so let me get there. We hung out in the McDonald’s aka me from 8:30am to 2pm. I got breakfast and lunch and lost brain cells in that hoe. No one should be in a McDonald’s that long. Also my tent was still soaking wet dripping on the floor so I tried to use the hand drier but that barely did anything to the soaked tent. It just got dirt everywhere which I cleaned up. So I pulled up my boot straps (wet socks and wet shoes) and hit the road. Crossed so many tunnels and entered into a fog cloud where you couldn’t see farther than maybe 10 feet in front of you. No sites to see besides looking down at your feet. 5 miles in I hit camp. I forgot to mention I was so pissed about my tent being wet especially the inside which it is my own damn fault as I packed up in the rain but I have every right to be pissed about it I DONT CARE. So morale was down. Caleb and I decided to pack out a shooter of vodka and a small bottle of fireball for camp. Anyways, back to camp. Got to camp and set up and tried to dry out my tent as much as possible in the cloudy/foggy weather which actually worked. The guys showed up later and we started boozing. There is a water change here and someone left boxed wine! I fucked up and thought it was empty but Caleb double checked and found a full boxed red wine and the guys said we had to finish it. So that we did with all the alcohol. Zach (deemed aqua man bc he slept in the river) and a Canadian showed up later with an older guy named Daniel. So we all started chatting. Great convo except when it got political. Too much to cover in that convo but let’s just say Caleb turned his frat boy shit on and was making no fucking sense at some points which made it very entertaining to sit back and watch the guys shoot the shit. Rough day for me as I kept getting bullied and finally I heard Marc say there was a line so I’m happy about that. All still jokes tho and I don’t take anything seriously. Aquaman said he was going to cowboy camp bc his tent was soaked which made no fucking sense as everything was soaked. Pretty much everyone at the McDonald’s went into wrightwood and they had dry shit and he’s up here on top of a mountain with everything soaked. This man has a death wish and we let him know but 19 year olds will be 10 year olds ya know? Today was way more entertaining than yesterday. Another guy at McDonald’s tried to eat 100 nuggets in one sitting. He got to like 86 before he fell asleep. Truly remarkable what the human body can do. Overall wierd emotional day in the sense I was pissed and then got happy and then got pissed and then got happy again.

Also half way through the desert! Hopefully in three weeks I will see dad or around that time:) crazy crazy crazy!