So, I had my first lazy morning today. No specific plans today (the big scary hike is tomorrow). I slept in, lazed about with my coffee….And wrote 4 days of blog entries. It is 10:30 and I’m still in my camp. Plan to eat breakfast soon, then go out exploring. The only “for sure” thing…
Month: July 2018
Road trip day 3, hustle to get a camp spot!
I had to get an early start today. 4 hour drive to get to the Coulter Bay Campground in Grand Teton NP…and all camping is first-come-first-served. Which really means, show up late and you have no hope of camping anywhere in the park. So, after reserving a few quiet moments to watch sunrise and have…
Road trip – Day 2, still written on day 4
I didn’t sleep well that night. I think because I drank too much coffee too late because I was worried about getting sleepy while driving. Woop, add that one to the list of worries. I got up early…before anyone else. I made my coffee and walked over to the river to enjoy the peacefulness of…
Summer Road Trip 2018 – Day 1 (written on day 4)
Wow, just realized it is already day 4!! Ok, back to day 1… I wisely had planned that this would be a short day, only 4 driving hours. I pretty much got everything ready the day before and the truck was mostly packed, which is how I was lulled into complacency and ended up leaving…
Lucky doesn’t do it justice. .
Because I found the needle in the haystack (or the phone in the random backyard of a stranger). I still wasn’t 100% sure I had the right house, but it was my last realistic option. I went back to the house around 5pm, but still no answer. I sat on the shady step of the…
I was having such a GREAT day….
And then I tripped on a stone and dropped my phone over the castle wall in Lisbon. 😟😢😭 But, let me back up… I had a wonderful lazy morning. I had a few cups of coffee, stood on the balcony overlooking a major pedestrian street, and headed out. I wandered around, slowly making my way…
Just a picture of something
That made me feel good…my walking stick. The blue and green stripes are the waymarker for the fisherman’s trail.
A nice day and a moment to reflect…
I begin with a quick update and summary of the past 2 days.. After my terrible limptastic day, I really did not believe that I would be able to do my last planned walk. I threaded all of my blisters that night believing that walking the next day was not going to be realistic. When…
Can I go home now? And why am I even doing this anyway???
Like, right now, Please? Today was ROUGH. The trail was longer, and somehow so very much harder than yesterday. Just after halfway I sincerely wished for a bus…to just about anywhere. I wanted to stop. I needed to stop. I was DONE with this walking bit. I have a selection of painful blisters on both…
Yes, yes I can.
Well, given that I could barely walk yesterday, it is practically a miracle that I actually made it hiking to Zambujera do Mar. I really wasn’t sure if I could do it. Yes, I know that I doubted my resilience every single day of the Camino, but this was different. I truly didn’t know if…