10/10/2023
Section: Milepost 2297.6 to 2297.6
Total Trail Miles: 2295.5 Miles
Distance: 0 Miles
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Oh… I picked something up. It’s bad. I woke up in the middle of the night shivering in a room that was set to 74 degrees. Amanda said she felt like she was in bed with the sun. I’ve got a major fever, slight sore throat, screaming headache - all of it. One silver lining is my stomach is fine. It’s either the flu or… maybe COVID. No way to get a test up here and we definitely aren’t going anywhere.
I stayed in bed all day. Amanda did the same. She is feeling fine but there is literally nothing to do up here. All morning we watched the most absolute garbage tv. 90 day fiance was the worst - I think I actually felt myself getting sicker the longer I watched. Fortunately, I slept through most of the episodes and in the afternoon, because we are now well into October, the Harry Potter series started to come on. What an awful day. We can’t shake the feeling that Washington really has had it out for us. Our first 3 days were mired by an atmospheric river’s load of water, then a terrifying experience on the knife edge and now this, sick in bed, listening to more rain pound the parking lot outside.
In the evening, Amanda went over to the gas station convenience store - the Kracker Barrel - and got me some fried food which I enjoyed in the room. I still wasn’t feeling great but could at least tell I was coming out the other side. We enjoyed the Chamber of Secrets for a while before I passed out again, hoping that I would be well enough to start again the next day.
So… not many piuctures today. But this was the very depressing view from out the hotel window.