Wednesday, October 03, 2018 I road with Clay into town, a great guy from Georgia. I was a chatterbox not having said many words in the last 2 weeks, happy for the conversation. He dropped me at the Post Office and we set up at meet up time and place. I mailed off my box of stuff I didn't want to carry around the second half of trip. I bought a good pair of insulated boots, a pad to sit on instead of a new chair, handkerchiefs and some cigars. I was set. We met up and ate lunch. While we were in town we heard the thunderstorm forecast and it didn't sound good. The worst of it was from Alice to Cherokee lakes with up to 75mph winds, but also included up to the gunflint area. I was glad I didn't go back out today and had instead got much needed items. As we were heading back up the Gunflint the storm hit with wind and rain, and felt fortunate that things worked out the way they did today. That whole evening and into the night at VCO the winds whipped and blew things around. A few dead trees came down there as well. I called the mrs again, talked about my day, got news from home and said goodbye again. I slept warm and dry after another HOT shower. Life is good!