Day 14: Laon
/I woke up this morning to grey light filtering in between the gap in the curtains. Without getting out of bed to even look at the sky, I checked the weather forecast on my phone; 90% chance of rain from 8am, 70% chance it would still be raining in the afternoon. I got out of bed and looked out my window. It was already raining lightly. I glanced at my hiking boots. I could tell by the darkness of the red that they were still wet but inspected them anyway. Outside. Wet. Inside. Wet. Great. I was going to be walking in the rain all day wearing wet boots that would get even wetter. I wanted to cry. I felt tired tears pooling behind my eyes. But then I wanted to laugh because somehow at the same time the situation seemed ridiculously funny.
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