We are staying at a lovely place, the Julian Hotel, they provide a fantastic breakfast every morning. They are the oldest continuously operating hotel in Southern California. It was built in 1897 by a freed slave and his wife.

We are on the 2nd floor and all rooms have their own bathrooms.

They also have a hiker box in the lobby. Hiker boxes are often receptacles for unwanted items in a hikers pack. Such as bandages, food items or hats, things they no longer want to carry or no longer like. They are gifts to other hikers, I found some granola bars in there and a couple of oatmeal packets Al could use. I left some cord and some masking tape.

Al bought a whole roll of tape. We attach masking tape to our hiking sticks and then tear off a hunk as we need it for multiple uses. Like a hot spot on a toe or the heel of a foot.

We ate dinner at the Julian Beer Co. had a marvelous pizza there. One of the German girls from our 1st night at Cleef was there also, we got to eat together and catch up on each others hike. She is staying at the same place that we are but arrived yesterday.

We went to the out fitter store and got a replacement fuel canister, some trail food and some KT tape for my knee. We met the Professor there and made plans with him to get back to the trail tomorrow.

Al also repaired the tent. He replaced the two broken tie downs and added two extra tie points to the sides that just had clips. It doesn’t look real pretty but hopefully it will work.

We did our laundry and got all packed back up.

Can’t wait to get back on the trail.

Until then, Be Well.