The Trail
(For those of you who don't really know me, The Trail is the PCT. Silly people, how could I be referring to anything else?)
I want to hike again. The kick-off was last weekend and it killed me to not be there, killed me to not be starting. When I got off the trail last July, I dreamed about it every night for the first three months. I thought about it every day. Now, most days I'm so happy with the rest of my life (my love, my work, my friends, my home) that I don't hunger for the trail the way I did in Ohio. I still think about it often and dream about it on a regular basis.
But, every day at work I check trailjournals and trailforums to see who has written and the desire to be out there again overwhelms me. Could I save enough money to be out there next year? Could I take that much time off work? What about grad school? Kids?
There are so many things I want to do. The problem is they don't seem to be compatable.
I want to hike again. The kick-off was last weekend and it killed me to not be there, killed me to not be starting. When I got off the trail last July, I dreamed about it every night for the first three months. I thought about it every day. Now, most days I'm so happy with the rest of my life (my love, my work, my friends, my home) that I don't hunger for the trail the way I did in Ohio. I still think about it often and dream about it on a regular basis.
But, every day at work I check trailjournals and trailforums to see who has written and the desire to be out there again overwhelms me. Could I save enough money to be out there next year? Could I take that much time off work? What about grad school? Kids?
There are so many things I want to do. The problem is they don't seem to be compatable.