Hot Saturday Night

Miles today: 136

Soundtrack: Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga

We left camp and headed towards Concord, NH for laundry day in a generica hotel. Big day.

We had a nice ride and lunch at a seafood place. Jaron got an ahi tuna burger and Julie got a clam roll. In two of the small towns we went thru, there were septuagenarians out protesting.

We got to our hotel and had a very cheerful and chatty receptionist who told us how many quarters to allow for each load of laundry. Julie brought down a ten dollar bill for quarters and he said it was easier to just give me an entire roll of quarters. Sweet! I never get them in regular life and sometimes campground showers require them.

Jaron got his laundry going while Julie took her turn in the shower. Julie went thru the bag of quarters and pulled out all of the nickels & dimes. Jaron didn't want to give them as part of our tip for dinner, so Julie bought 10 more quarters.

We went to dinner at the Chinese restaurant across the street while Julie's laundry was in the dryer. When we got back, two gents were waiting in the laundry room (there were 2 washers and 2 dryers). Someone else's stuff had been put in the sole wheeled basket. Jaron said it was a hot Saturday night.

Jaron would like you to know that I spilled my dinner. The cup is for size.

Julie's fortune cookie didn't contain a fortune! Our waitress was rolling silverware, so I went over to her and showed her the empty cookie. She immediately jumped up to get me a new cookie. My fortune was something about a smile on a loved one's face. <hand waggle>

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