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| View from our cabin. |
Today was an
18-miler. We're feeling a little better
after a day of rest. And we're *trying*
to get to Warner Springs before the post office closes tomorrow. This part IS a race!
We also busted
out the mp3 players for the first time today.
It was a long, hot hike in the San Felipe Hills, and we got quiet. Really quiet.
Like maybe grumpy, let's check our moods with music quiet. And it was great! It's truly amazing what a few tunes can
do. Yes, you miss a bit of the natural
splendor, but it is a good release for the brain.
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| 12 military helicopters. We checked Facebook; the world is not ending! |
So today while
silently walking, I found myself bouncing between missing my mate and comparing
who I am beginning this trip to who I was 12 years ago when I took my 77 day
Outward Bound trip. (Was it really that
long ago?!) That trip changed my life
(at a time when I really needed it) and made me a better person. I did that one knowing I needed to, but not
knowing why. This time around, I don't
really need the trip so much as want it.
So where will it leave me this time?
I have a few things that I set out to work on ... today was sort of
checking in to remind myself of those and see if I am starting any of
them. (This is probably why I was really
quiet.) And see, my mate was the one to
ask me before the trip what I want to get from it, so round and round I go.
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| Our first water cache! Thank you trail angels. |
No conclusions
or confessions yet! It's too early in
the hike and too late at night! Here's
hoping for another strong hike tomorrow.
Night!
A bottled water cache! What a wonderful thing to do! It takes some truly nice people to do something like that. Makes me feel good that you two have people like that along the trail. Lou
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