Day 10: San Diego resupply

We spent the day going from place to place, getting shoes, shorts, fabric dye, and all manner of other things that we found out we needed after the first week on the trail. Erin traded out her new balance shoes for some Brooks Cascadia's at REI, along with a set of Sole brand insoles.  I returned a letterman that had a set of scissors die on me, and along with my busted platypus, and found a GoalZero USB – powered battery charger for AA and AAA batteries that I can connect to my solar panel. Big score there. From there we proceeded to get some fabric dye for errands once – white shirt, which had begun sullied from the dirt and ink from her backpack. We rewarded ourselves at Alesmith for a job well done on chores. 

We fought San Diego traffic on the way home after getting some burritos, then headed out to Petco Park to watch the San Francisco Giants take on the San Diego Padres, who were holding down the last place in the NL West division. Sadly, the Giants lost. The game went to normal time, but it felt late to us as hiker midnight is around 9 PM. After their victory, San Diego let off some fireworks that, thankfully for the city, took longer than eight seconds. (A previous fourth of July incident made the city famous for having all of their fireworks go off in an instant, which lasted about eight seconds.)