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The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. –Thomas Arnold Bennett

I woke up at 6 AM, reset my alarm, and went back to sleep. Then I woke up a 7 AMand I felt a little better about it, so I didn’t reset the alarm and I got up. I had partially packed up last night, but left the panniers empty. I maneuvered the bike out of the bike house (no an easy task, but much easier when unloaded) and started filling panniers. I then did a once through the house and straightened up anything I had disturbed in my stay. I locked up the house and dropped off a note, a donation, and the key under June’s front porch mat. I started climbing just before 8. I stopped as I passed behind Hope and Jim’s house and got a better overall pictures of the labyrinth and a few shots of the view.
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I woke up at around 8 AM, when June came into the bike house. She told me not to get up, but I told her to come on in. We sat and talked for an hour or so about some of the people that had come through before and about how modern times are so much different than old times. I was able to talk with June a couple of times throughout the day and had a good time during each conversation. Quite a bit of today was taking pictures of as much as I could in the bike house. There were many travel journals and books that I would like to read, but there just wouldn’t be enough time to read that much in a whole week. I started “copying” these by taking digital pictures of each page. It was a pretty quick process, but there were so many pages and articles that I wanted to read. As I am sitting here, I have taken over 1100 digital pictures from things in the house. This will take some time to sort out, but I will be glad that I get a chance to read some of them eventually.
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