Update from Stratton Maine

So apparently the pictures from the last few days got saved on my camera's internal memory where I'm having trouble accessing it, so no pictures.
I started out again last Friday to do the 71 miles between Monson and Stratton ME. Lots of beautiful waterfalls, some deep river fords, mountains with big rock outcroppings, and a canoe ride across the Kenebec River, since it would be hard to ford at 7 or 8 feet deep.
Sunday night at Pierce Pond I met 2 other south bounders and 4 north bounders (one of them who had started on April 27th, that's over 20 miles every day!) There was good swimming and a beautiful sunset. That night I started to feel really sick, cold chills and muscle aches and stuff. I felt alright the next day, woke up, got some delicious pancakes from a cool old guy at a little fishing camp half a mile down the trail, and then started out again. After 7 or 8 miles I realized I was still pretty sick, and figured in the middle of the woods by myself wasn't the best place to be. So I headed out another 5.5 miles to a road, calling the hostel in Stratton on the way to get a ride out. Turns out I got a staph infection, and the itchy red bumps on my legs weren't bug bites, but from the infection. No idea where it came from. I went to a doctor in the town of Rangely 20 miles south and got hooked up with some antibiotics yesterday. Feeling a lot better now, going to give it another day of rest, and then head out tomorrow.