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Well, this sucks. Let’s go chronologically though. Night one was… interesting. The temperature dropped from high 60s to very low 30s pretty quickly. My sleeping pad was comfortable enough, as was my quilt (sleeping bag that can open into a blanket). My tent was easy to set up, and withstood some pretty heavy gusts. My…

It started off with me waking up at 10am. Not particularly ideal, but if you read my last post, you know I needed it, lol. It’s now past “hiker midnight” aka 9pm. I have internet and I woke up when a particularly loud gust of wind came by, lol. This may be a trend, as…

It’s 1:30am here in Atlanta, which is of course only 12:30 in DFW, so I can’t quite fall asleep yet, though apparently out on the trail, 9pm is commonly called “hiker midnight”. Since I’m a bit too restless to go to bed right now, I’ll finish up Houston. There was a cistern that had once…

I woke up relatively early on Saturday, and decided to have breakfast at the attached restaurant, but every seat was either full or had dirty dishes in front of it. Google told me that there was a really good breakfast taco place nearby, and so I started walking. I walked completely around the high rise…

Before Houston part deux, I’m putting out a call to everyone to add some walking music. What am I missing? 🙂

So, coming back from Colorado, I started coughing, then fever, then body aches. Ugh, upper respiratory infection, my old friend. I decided not to stuff myself into a big metal tube, turning myself into a literal airborne vector (all credit for the joke goes to my brother A, lol). As I started recovering, I began…

After driving past Saul the Giant Sticker Ball, I was most of the way up to Fort Collins , and it was getting dark. Not that it was super late or anything, but the mountains turn off the light around 6:30pm, lol. By the time I got to his place, it was fully dark, and…

I decided to see my Coloradan family before going out on the trail, both because I haven’t seen them in a long while, and because I’ve never seen Colorado. I started off in Denver with my dad, and we started off with a drive around the mountains. We drove through amazing scenery, saw Red Rocks…

So today I took my new backpack (Osprey Exos 58), out on a 4 1/2 mile hike, and I am confident that I made the right choice. Backpack Anyone who has gone hiking, or backpacking, or even just worn a backpack/back purse on a hot day, knows the joyous feeling of a breeze on a…

Woke up this morning knowing it was moving day. A little bit excited, a little annoyed, a little sad. Helping Sarah with the movers, her new apartment is super secure, which means someone needs to hold the door upstairs and downstairs. We did a garage sale a few months ago before our first buyers had…