A day off at camp awesome

Today finds us resting at mountain valley retreat, a sweet little spot of the trail with a delightful host, Chery.

Technically it's kind of a yoga retreat in function, with other services in line with that, massage, a water therapy called watsu, that kinda thing, her website has all the details of course, if your ever in the region it's a wonderful escape from life, she cooks excellent good food for you, the most amazing salads, even a smoothie with our breakfast today that has so much goodness in it

We could have stayed here for ages, and we are also the only ones here so it was so cozy and private, there are a range of wildlife here, wild turkeys, birds, and three lovely cats that Chery rescued, miss mouse was even friendly enough to let us pat her belly before she headed off to chase something

So this water thing, watsu, totally amazing, is an indoor (in a yurt!) inground pool, heated to body temp, so you can sit in their for the hour without being hot or cold, you get kitted up floaties around your knee area, then a thing to cradle your head, so you float in this salted warm pool totally comfortable and relaxed, then Chery does a water massage that just leaves you in this bliss state for the rest of your floaty time, is bordering sensory deprivation with the tranquillity and relaxing involved

We fetched our resupply box, and my new too small need to be sent back shoes (boo) and sun gloves (yay they fit), we packed up our now huge food bags in  prep for a six day stretch to idyllwild at mile 178, we are currently at 101, so soon we'll be cruising past mile 200, then it'll be mile 2000 before we know it!!

But one day at a time..

We had Californian blt's for dinner.. So good.. Anyways it's late and we're ready to chase the sandman, later gators