Day 61, a zero--Today i once again enjoyed my Mothers cooking, and my Fathers as well. Breakfast was amazing, dinner was the same, and i snacked the rest of the day away. Managed to add some pictures to the blog today, ran some errands, and planned the next couple weeks of the trip. Throughout the day it felt like i was on alloted time. This stop has been the best of the trip, and the extreme comfort is hard to abandon to return to the trail. I have stayed up way too late tonight, just trying to make it last. I am not one of those hikers who condemns society, urbania, and touts the freedoms and truths of life on the trail that they believe cannot be found elsewhere. I like civilization as much as the wilderness, for me they both bring something to the table. So when i have had so much of one recently and so little of the other its hard not to seek a balance, to stay a while longer. But if i hope to reach my goal of walking across the Canadian border in a timely fashion, i must go. I also have people to see, which helps motivate me along my ortherly path. Is northerly a word? Anyway I've made the day last til 1:45am now, so i should get to sleep. Thought of the day; i wonder what it's like for Dana Perino at family gatherings? Song of the day; the melody from a song "Learning how to live with change"by my Dads friend Dan Walker. Craving of the day; more time here with my parents, a bed, and all the fruit i can eat.
JWC on the PCT
Some thoughts before departure...
- I am still not a vet, doctor, lawyer, dog trainer, cia agent, fbi agent or a navy seal so...walk
- I am doing this for the challenge of course, and I hope to gain a confidence that comes with this type of endeavor. But also I hope to gain some new knowledge about the world and the truths that reside in it.
- Am I walking to "find myself"? Or just to take a walk. You decide...and you'll probably be right.
- I'm not in the best shape of my life, but I do have a lot of new great gear so....
- After living with my parents the last 2 years, it makes perfect sense to walk 2650 miles - alone.
- Yes there will be bears, cougars, rattlesnakes and scorpions both imagined and real along the way. I'm definitely more worried about those imagined.
- Am I scared? Not as of yet, more of just a constantly increasing anticipation. But check back with me on the 3rd night in the desert.
- I tried to keep my pack fairly light, but I definitely would not call it ultralight. Somehow when I added up all my ultralight gear and put it in my ultralight pack, I ended up with just slightly heavy.
- My biggest concern for this trip is that I get too hungry somewhere along the way, my brain goes awol as it usually does when I get hungry and subsequently you never hear from me again...I'll try to eat frequently.
- I am not Christopher McCandless. This is not Into the Wild.
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Who's Dana Perino??
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