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Shall I Keep Blogging
I am about to set off on the florida trail and have just discovered that my storage space for a free wordpress account is all used up. To get three more GB it would cost me about $50 per year plus taxes etc and to get 13 GB it would cost 100 per year. Having…
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The Next Adventure Begins
This blog is going to be different than most. There’s so much I want to say and write but I’ve been putting off the writing until I felt I had the brain power and focus. Unfortunately that never works with writing. Writing really is work of some sort and like any other work, putting it…
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My Crazy Endeavor
I’ve never been a fan of hiking with earphones, preferring instead to listen to the sounds of nature around me. I was also concerned about using up the battery on my phone if I was listening to a podcast while hiking. However, I know that listening to something while walking can make the miles go…
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The Importance of Friends
I view the time I spent when I first got home, staring for way too many hours at the computer screen, as a kind of percolating, waiting for my internal system to catch up with my external body in the major transition it had to make from thru hiking to relative inactivity. It was the…
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Injuries, doctors, and a hundred-year-old friend
This wasn’t the first time I was dealing with injury in duplicate. Once before I had injured both of my knees at the same time and as my sports medicine, doctor said I didn’t “have a leg to stand on.” Back then I had resorted to swimming to keep myself moving. But now, it didn’t…
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Transitioning
I find transition times difficult. Going from a known entity into a lesser known one can provoke some anxiety. I often feel a bit uneasy even leaving my house. Once I’m in my car and on the way, I’m usually fine. But in this case, I was transitioning from being quite active to being relatively…
The Mary Badass
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