Sunday, 27 August 2006

South Alburg (Vermont)

I slept right through the night and through my early alarms. I probably didn't hear them going off because of the noise of the wind. I knew as soon as I woke up that I wouldn't be going anywhere today. The sound of the wind in the trees and the rain on the tent was enough to know it would be too dangerous to even think about cycling (although I did think about it, but sensibly ruled it out) If it had been just the wind, or just the rain it might have been okay, but the combination of the two - No. In addition the wind was from the south, so it would have been very hard going.

I had been so tired when I climbed into the tent last night that I hadn't quite zipped the fly-screen door shut properly and so there were two fat bloated mossies in the tent in the morning and another one later on. Oddly, I could find out where they'd bitten me.

It was a very long and boring day. Nothing to do and nowhere to go. The campsite office /shop was open in the morning and I sat chatting over a coffee, but soon everyone else was packing up to leave and the office closed so I was relegated to the tent, reading and snoozing - which probably means that I won't be able to sleep tonight.

By 6 pm the rain had stopped, although the wind was still blustering around. The sky brightened up a little and the sun was briefly visible through the cloud. Hopefully tomorrow will be better; I couldn't stand two days trapped here. I ventured out of the tent to cook and make some tea, whilst trying to make sure that nothing blew away.