Zero Zeroes

It's really important on a hike like this to take "Zeroes" (zero mile days). But we somehow manage never to do so. After 10 days out, we left PA to finalize our condo sale, clean the place and put some stuff in storage. High stress and I messed a shoulder up steam cleaning the Car Barn carpet. Halfway thru NY we left for The City. But that was full of errands too-repairing and replacing equipment, seeind friends and family, etc. We DID manage to spend the better part of a day in bed reading magazines, waiting for the heat to break, so we could walk again (we hit NY amidst a serious heat-wave where most hikers we knew did little to no miles,due to limited water supplies. We arrived in Salisbury, CT late yesterday after a valiant 14-mile push, with the intention of zeroing here. But the campsite sucks. So after finishing the Sunday Times outside a delightful cafe, we're getting some groceries, returning to the site, breaking camp and climbing halfway up a 2,000-ft. Mountain. Call it a Nero (Near Zeo). Real zeroes may prove elusive as we aim to get thru 3 states in 4 weeks. But we'll still try to take some. If not, we'll surely be Nero-ing again as our bods can only take so much abuse.
Billy Goat