Administrivia: you don’t need Instagram to follow the pics, just look in the lower right of the page. The latest ones are there and if you click around in there you can see the rest. Exhausting and exhilarating 5 days. I have terrible blisters, but great companions. Shared meals, shared stories, shared hitches. The country…
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Lake Morena. Mile 20ish. Here with about a dozen others, just 2 I know, Johnny Rocket and Butter. Legs ok, feet sore. More moleskin tomorrow. Had a terrific day, with a nice 2 hour siesta, food and chat with a few others including a guy from Holland. Saw: LIZARDS, horned toad, some cool blue starling…
Shit just got real
Hopefully I do not share Sampson’s fate. I see myself more as Antaeus…except for the Hercules part.
Death by a thousand grams
In the final stages of trip planning and packing, I have a tendency to enter what I call the “kitchen sink” phase. While I have no proof, I suspect others run into the same challenge. At this phase your pack is packed, the weight dialed in on your spreadsheet, key decisions made about what…