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Thank You
I am taking this moment to say a quick thank you to all who read and follow me. And a special thanks to all who have shared with me so that I could purchase the new ipad. Through your generosity I have been able to purchase it and have enough to stay a few nights…
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Saying goodbye
As my time in Santa Fe was drawing to a close, I was surprised to find I was feeling nostalgic about the desert. I grew up on the East Coast and love the greenery. While I have enjoyed hiking the desert sections of the Continental Divide Trail, the PCT and the Arizona Trail, I never…
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Being Seen
I mentioned before that Santa Fe has laws about what color the houses can be painted. There are a few gray ones but most of the dwellings are some shade of brown. Today on my walk I noticed that some of the houses had blue doors and window frames. Others had red roofs. I laughed…
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Planning, Part Two
People often want to know what I eat on the trail so I’m going to start with that here. I’ve gotten pretty good at calculating how much food I need every day. I dehydrate a lot of my food and especially like my dehydrated dinners which include eggplant Parmesan with organic whole wheat pasta, orange…
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Getting Prepared
I thought I would share with you some of the steps I’ve been going through to plan for this next hike. When I first started hiking, planning a long distance hike was much harder because I didn’t have the advantage of all the information to be found on the Internet. Luckily for me, most of…
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Back to my Car
My plan had been to spend that first day off the Arizona Trail hiking in a slot canyon before catching a ride out the following morning. When I first planned on hiking this canyon, I didn’t realize it was the same one I had hiked from end to end a number of years ago. Knowing…
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