Day 3, 6:15 PM - After dinner walk with the mosquitos
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A final post-prandial walk in the early evening. One of the simple pleasures of hiking is taking your toothbrush and floss off to a spectacular overlook and spending 15 minutes mining lentils from your teeth against a magnificent backdroup. You've got about 15 minutes before legions of bloodsuckin' mosquitos figure out where you are and drop in for a meal.

Okay, okay. The mosquitos weren't that bad. Most of the time.