I’ve been on a rollercoaster of emotions these past couple of weeks. And after a couple of all-nighters mapping out our trail by GPS waypoints, I got pretty burned out for a bit.
BUT… We’re leaving Phillips tomorrow and we won’t see it again for about 9 months. That’s kind of a weird feeling. I can’t even explain all that’s going through my head.
I will miss my husband, my dad, my 3 cats, family, friends… but we will have a new adventure every day to keep our minds busy. It’ll still be hard – especially the first couple of weeks, but I think we’ll be okay.
Oh – and I’m mentally preparing myself for some SORE muscles. Having working so hard doing computer work, I haven’t gotten out to hike as much as I’d like to these past few weeks, either. So I’m just praying that all the preparation we’ve done before that will make up for it. I’m confident we’ll make it, but I know we’re going to hurt. I would never go into something like this -- walking 20 miles per day -- and not feel a muscle twinge here or there!
And I really need to shoot out a VERY special ‘thanks’ to a great couple that are helping us out tremendously!! Tamar and Jakob Teitelbaum (http://www.walkacrosstheus.com/) are hiking the ADT behind us by a couple of months. They said that if it works out, they would help us out with our water in the west. THANK YOU! J
And a little picture that might make the super-lightweight hikers kind of giggle at me. J I have a feeling I’m going to want to switch some things out a ways in, but we’ll see how this load takes me. I’m at about 28-30 pounds with 4 days of food and 2 liters of water. The only thing missing is our JetBoil stove -- that had to be sent ahead of time.
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