Well after a failed attempt at a 10 mile hike on Sunday (we did somewhere between 6 to 8.. Not sure, a lot of losing trails and bushwacking). I determined that my Salomon Ellipse shoes were not going to make it for the trail so back to REI they went.. Sigh..
On the lighter side, yay a store credit to get my last few items!! WooHoo!! Who would have ever thought I would have been so excited to shop for backpacking equipment. Some girls are looking for fancy shoes or purses and I'm like 'oooh I need a bug net for my head!!' Little things, I guess...
We're in the process of packing up the house for everything to go into storage. Its kind of nerve wracking. This is the biggest, scariest thing I have ever done. If someone would have told me 2 years ago that I would be packing up my house, quitting my job and venturing off to hike 2200 miles. OK, well, I may have believed them.. hahahaha.
There is something oddly comforting in not having a point of end. There's no return ticket booked, there's no definitive end date. Just the idea that when I get there I have 1 job... Hike.. oh and enjoy nature!
Tonight at work I saw the worst case I have seen in the 8 years I've been working in veterinary medicine. I hope to never come across anything like that again. I am haunted by it in this very moment and I imagine I will be for awhile. Even just the thought of it disturbs me to my very soul and violates my core. Its a case like that that is the pinnacle of a career choice. I wanted to work in this field since I was a small child, and now I dream of nothing else than to leave it in the rear view as I step on the gas to get away from it. It's that feeling that drives me to want and need this journey. I need the AT's green trails to wash the pain and suffering from my soul. To have the serenity heal my broken heart from so much death and neglect. On that note in comic irony, I'll probably get mauled by a bear..
Just kidding... Truly I am. I want to finish the trail.
The countdown is 23 days until we leave, 26 days til we start the trail.
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