I've never done anything like your PCT thru-hike, but nonetheless this resonated quite a bit with me, especially the notion that "I need to let that old version of me go."
Related phenomenon: wondering at what age I'll stop watching professional athletes play and thinking "I could probably lace 'em up if I stretched and ate better"
I've known a few thru hikers, and all have struggled with how the "reentry" into "normal" society results in a return to their "normal" body. How wise to realize that a thru hikers appetite and body is attached to the hike and not a permanent change. Love your Blog! Enjoy your break!
Once again I think of personal parallels, write a fatherly-wisdom kind of comment and then delete it because it seems too self-indulgent and, well, dad-like. But I'll leave this one: You are doing all of this living stuff the right way and you have the wisdom and the sentience to appreciate the joys and rewards of the journey, and the benefits of just going slower (can the likes of Jurek and Honnold say the same? Or are they too obsessed with the destination? I think so). Anyway, the rest is best discussed over an IPA at the Peddler, the man cave, the fire pit or in the front-yard chairs. (BTW, 9 pm is old-man midnight as well as hiker midnight). Slainte.
I've never done anything like your PCT thru-hike, but nonetheless this resonated quite a bit with me, especially the notion that "I need to let that old version of me go."
Related phenomenon: wondering at what age I'll stop watching professional athletes play and thinking "I could probably lace 'em up if I stretched and ate better"
I've known a few thru hikers, and all have struggled with how the "reentry" into "normal" society results in a return to their "normal" body. How wise to realize that a thru hikers appetite and body is attached to the hike and not a permanent change. Love your Blog! Enjoy your break!
Thanks Mick! Hopefully one of these days we can all get together with Naneek and swap stories.
Once again I think of personal parallels, write a fatherly-wisdom kind of comment and then delete it because it seems too self-indulgent and, well, dad-like. But I'll leave this one: You are doing all of this living stuff the right way and you have the wisdom and the sentience to appreciate the joys and rewards of the journey, and the benefits of just going slower (can the likes of Jurek and Honnold say the same? Or are they too obsessed with the destination? I think so). Anyway, the rest is best discussed over an IPA at the Peddler, the man cave, the fire pit or in the front-yard chairs. (BTW, 9 pm is old-man midnight as well as hiker midnight). Slainte.