[From a message to a friend (2008-07-31-1713):]
and that issue about relationships--giving the most meaning, sometimes, and the most suffering. And getting people stuck too. Both the truck drivers I rode north with (I'm now in Sequoia NF) had tales of woe and stuckness about their first wives.
well, at the moment, I'm in the Domeland Wilderness (roundish mtns of granite) I have a large valley with stream [a fork of the Kern] probably to myself. Laying on some granite in shade of large pine tree waiting for a pot of good stuff to cool.
I seem to be much healthier than I was in May, and my pack much lighter (a lot of time and attention spent on that), and will probably be up in Yosemite before too long, even without spending too much time walking.
So things are good. Not sure when you'd get this--sending USPS mail may be faster--possibly I won't be where reception is until South Lake Tahoe, if I go that far.
When I've wanted to keep walking but my mind was getting numb, I play audiobooks on my phone--this is nice to be able to do.
I've not yet got on the PCT, but am headed that way through this wilderness (because I knew I could get there this way from a trailhead I could reach by bus), so often trails are hard to make out and going can be slow.
But every place I learn I feel expands my real estate holdings significantly.
Peace,
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