Campsite at mile 559 to Highway 58 (mile 566 then a hitch into Tehachapi)
Errands!! *Shakes fist angrily at sky*
The amazing thing about errands is that they exist in an elastic place outside the normal time-space boundaries. Insofar that a trip to the post office, grocery shopping, laundry, and checking into a hotel can consume the majority of a hikers day. Compare this to the three hours it would take a normal person.
Luckily for us we have Victor, Keith’s friend from high school who has a car (a car!) and is kindly willing to help us run our errands and take us to lunch with his friend Rosa. Yay Victor! Yay Rosa, it was lovely to meet you!
With Victor’s help we’re able to hop back into the normal time stream of errands running. Meaning that by 4pm Keith and I are in our hotel room, our packs exploded across the floor along with our groceries as our laundry spins along happily in the washer downstairs. More than expediency this accelerated errands trip has bought us a blissful day of doing nothing tomorrow. Something we haven’t had since Big Bear and which I’m looking forward to immensely.