I'm going for another long hike

[Riverkilt]

Better you than me....jeez, that hurts this aging body just to ponder.

Hope you have a great trip though. Better there at altitude than over here on one of the desert trails.

Ron

[Retro Red]

Better there at altitude than over here on one of the desert trails.

Of course, hiking the desert trails here in Arizona he'd have to contend with all the illegals!
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[Andrew Breecher]

Oh, I start out at the Mexican border in Campo, CA - which is basically a town for border guards. There are illegals on the trail. It goes through the desert mountains, past Palm Springs and San Bernadino, and through the western Mojave Desert, before it gets to the Sierras. There are twenty-mile waterless stretches of trail (though this year southern CA has gotten a lot more water than in a typical year).

There's a little something for everyone on this trail!

17 days and counting....

Andrew.

[JayFilomena]

The whole trip should take me around five months, and I'll be updating my web page as I go, with words and photos. Of course, I'll be doing the entire thing in a kilt (once finished, this will bring the miles on this little Bear Kilt to around 5,000).
Andrew.

Andrew, that sounds like an amazing adventure. I have placed your blog in my favorites, and plan to check on you weekly. God speed sir.

Jaybird

[flairball]

Andrew,
Good luck, and stay safe. Stay kilted too, of course. I enjoyed conversing with you at kilt night, and look forward to doing it again when you return. In the mean time I'll see to it that your progress is properly toasted at any kilted events while your away.

[davedove]

I hope you have a good hike Andrew and the weather isn't too nasty.

Enjoy your stroll in the countryside.

[Valencian Kilted]

Good luck man, it's amazing to me how some people manages to make their dreams true!,... congrats for such a determination!

As somebody said before, it's impossible at the moment for me as well to find soo much time to make a long hike, but maybe in a future I'll find the time to cover walking the millennary Santiago's way from the french border to Galicia. It's more or less a month's walk, although the different roads cross all over europe. For everybody who could be interested, here's a link:


http://www.mundicamino.com/


if everybody thinks about it for next year's summer,... I'll be pleased to know! ;)

¡Salud!

T O N O

[Andrew Breecher]

I'd love to hike the Camino someday...having lived south of Toulouse for several months I'd even have some people to stay with at the beginning of the trip.

As a side note, my mother told me a few months ago that she's stopped worrying about "what I'm going to do with my life." She realised that I'm doing it. Yes, it's not what everyone is told they "should do," but at the end of it all I won't be able to say that I didn't pursue my dreams.

Andrew.

[Andrew Breecher]

Nine days and counting.

Am I excited?

Yes I am.

Andrew.

[Kilted KT]

Nine days and counting.

Am I excited?

Yes I am.

Andrew.

As am I . Getting out into the hills is always a fantastic time.