X’s sister and brother-in-law, Edie and Wayne Wilhide, collected us from the trail yesterday and opened up their beautiful home to us for the most restful rest day in the past eleven weeks. We needed it!

About the most strenuous thing we did all day was head to the mall to find a pair of pants to replace the suit that now hangs loose on N. (We pointed out to someone today that we each had lost the equivalent of our starting backpack weights!) J. C. Penny came through with the perfect pair on sale for only 14 bucks.

We talked about a second zero day tomorrow, after going to nearby Chambersburg this evening for a special showing of “Beauty Beneath the Dirt,” a documentary on the Appalachian Trail (“What happens when you put a lawyer, an Ivy League graduate, and a city chick from Chicago’s South Side on the AT?”), but have decided instead to take advantage of the great weather and get back on the trail early in the morning. We’d write more, but this is a rest day…