Day 22 Sat May 10th

Slept great, but lots of condensation, our sleeping bags were quite wet in the morning. We aired them out for an hour and got on the trail around 7am. Only 13.6 miles to Vanilla milkshake land! The miles came easy again and we were to McDonald's before noon! Today, Neighbor nearly stepped on this little snake, then realized it was a baby rattler! He tried to pick it up with his trekking pole and it started to rattle like mad, but being a baby, it sounded just sooo cute, like a little bee! Back at McD's, the Chief, Neighbor and I all got chicken salads, and ice cream sundae's and I got my shake! Neighbor got his iced coffee, it was a good time. Nimblewill came in and it was a grand ole time. Then we decided to take the rest of the afternoon off (as it was the hottest part of the day) and stay at the Best Western just up the street. We are splitting a room with the Chief and Detour. Tons of other hikers here, it's the place to be! We now have clean laundry and clean bodies! Just ate a footlong sub from subway for dinner and we'll head back out on the trail in the morning (after we put a hurting on the included continental breakfast!!) We'll be in Wrightwood in 2 days. And we checked, the San Jacinto 39 mile missed section is STILL CLOSED! Ahhhhhh. We are starting to think we'll have to fly back from Canada to finish the trail in Idlywild! Seeing tons of poison oak lately. I have an eagle eye for it now!