The hikers arrived in NYC at noon on Wednesday and caught the train back to Pawling, NY at midnight Thursday. It was a whirlwind two days with lots of walking and exploration - Statue of Liberty, China Town, Little Italy, Greenwhich Village, Times Square, library, Empire State Building, Central Park, Twin Towers site, bookstore and movie. They ate their way through bottomless soup and salad, pizza and pancakes. They were even able to find their next day's breakfast of pastries, muffins and donuts out by a bakery dumpster prior to catching the train back to Pawling. They appreciated beds and showers in the hostel.
When they returned to Pawling by train, the doors to their train car did not open at their stop and as they were running through the train to find an exit, Jonathan twisted his ankle...mishap#1. The following morning, Madeline discovered she no longer had her hiking boots - left behind in the hostel in NYC....mishap#2. Jonathan apparently had taken them out of her pack when looking for shampoo and had neglected to return them. Madeline didn't know they had been taken out and neither one did a thorough check to make sure everything was accounted for prior to leaving the hostel. The boots were in a garbage bag so not instantly recognizable.
Madeline spent the following day, Friday, hiking the two mile round trip back and forth from the camp site to town in order to get cell phone reception and try to locate her boots through the hostel. After many, many conversations, it was deemed a lost cause by Hostel staff Saturday morning. On the brighter side, Jonathan has had two days to rest his ankle, (which is feeling better), and will have one more day to take it easy as well. I expressed mailed her back-up boots (yikes! espensive!) Saturday - to be received Monday. Hopefully, they will be back on the trail sometime Monday. Another trail lesson learned I suspect.
They are still camping outside the Lion's Club which will be presenting live music tonight - a Frank Sinatra cover band - and that's the extent of Pawling's Saturday night entertainment. It doesn't get much more exciting than that!
This detour to New York and the subsequent mishaps have cost them nearly a week so the gap in their schedule is widening. When you intend to walk this far for this long, I don't think it much matters. After all, it's the journey, not the destination. I'll have to update their maildrop schedule to reflect their delays. ~Amy
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