My thoughts about the PCT have been pervasive for years now, and summer of 2013 is when they began again. My college biology textbook mentioned the PCT; and also "that" book about walking 1600 miles of the PCT came out. My passions from my youth for walking the PCT came to the surface again; having first been born in the mid-1970's.
I was still drinking at this rebirth of my walking so I included plan's of carrying alcohol. I laugh now thinking about my trying to plan my consumption of one litre of vodka every three days.
Sheeze.
Water weighs 2.2 pounds a litre. I'll need to carry as much as seven or eight litre's of water through several sections of the PCT. Not only do I thank God for being sober; I also thank God I don't have to carry the extra weight of vodka.
Even when I subjected myself to resignation that I would not be walking this year again and put the trail out of mind, I still thought about being on-trail.
Then this past Saturday morning I thought, "How can I make walking the PCT right now and 29 March 2017 Happen?" I suddenly realized I can make it happen if I think short-term about my immediate financial future, and not exactly long-term.
A sixty-something maybe seventy year old friend of mine told me that if I can, do it.
If I succeed then I succeed.
If I fail then at least I tried.
It is what it is.
I just have to try and try.
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