Zero Day in Lincoln, NH

Day Five
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Zero Day in Lincoln, NH

We stayed last night at Mt. Liberty Motel.  Pretty nice, but not close to town.  We could have used a bike to go but ha!  we wanted to rest so the owner, Mike, shuttled us to town to eat for a small fee.  Last night we went to The Common Man - very nice restaurant with good food but a bit pricey.   Wait-up had pot roast, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and butter while I had steak kabobs.  There was a complimentary cheese and cracker bar and white chocolate to top off the meal.

We stopped at Price Chopper to pick up something for breakfast so we could stay at the hotel in the morning.

Susan, the owner, did our laundry for $5.  No shampoo in the room, luckily I had put some in our drop box  that me mailed here ahead of time.  The queen size bed was kindof hard, but at least we had a bed.

I noticed I have bad bruises on my arms from black fly bites and my backpack scraping my arms.

We wound up staying with Mike and Susan for Saturday night, Sunday night and Monday night so we could slackpack Mt. Moosilauke on Monday.

Two hikers checked into the room beside us and we got to know a little about them over the next couple of days.  They were hiking for an AARP campaign, sponsored by Gold Canyon Heart and Home, called “Disrupting the Aging Model.”   A 71-year-old man named Mike Fegan started the campaign with the intention of completing a Triple Crown Challenge of 8,000 miles on the Applachian Trail, the Continental Divide and the Pacific Crest Trail.  Somewhere back on the A. T. he had fallen and hurt his shoulder, so Silver Streak took up the walk in his place.  WOW joined up with him along the way.  We found out that WOW had already done some of the PCT and was planning to finish it up after completing the A. T. before going back to Australia. 

At our age, we identified with their campaign. 

Mt. Liberty Motel, Lincoln NH