Day 6, As It Is Happening, Mattress repair done, 4:30

Great job, if i may say so. I will know in three hours if it held. You can see other scratch marks on the mattress, but they did not penetrate the membrane. No big deal if it didn't hold.

What joy is brought by these little accomplishments on the road.

I learned to take a substantial tent repair kit on Alaska in 1992 while in McNeil River Bear Sanctuary. Ten minutes or so after i left my tent to go to the nearby cookhouse, a bear took out my brand new tent. (Better the tent than me.) I had to use duct tape to repair it. Fortunately, my Visa card insurance paid for the tent, with its bear paw-prints on it as proof of what happened.

Ed