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Apr 24, 2015 : Captain Planet Appalachian Trail

First ten days

Hot and sunny to sleeting rain  overnight. Thunderstorms to cold clear 17 degrees and freezing our asses off. Hiking isn’t difficult, weather is difficult. Having a blast out here in the “wilderness” and starting to feel quite strong. Towns, cars, roads, buildings are all starting to feel a bit alien. Also starting to feel that hiker hunger…I think I might be starving a little bit.

Had a bit of trail magic today, the kind you couldn’t possibly expect and should never try to explain. Really loving this lifestyle, too bad it has to end in one season. The learning curve is steep out here…I hope I can keep up and not make any mistakes twice.

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Captain Planet
Apr 24th : Captain Planet
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Captain Planet's Bio

How quickly we move; how slowly I move. Not from one moment to the next, but like a long breathe drawing itself in, then out, the tide, the seasons, the slow, gentle touch of age. Flowing without divisions and without deadlines. No discipline, no self-discipline, but it takes every muscle, every thought, to keep from moving along with the pressure. Blowing myself into unhappy ticks and tocks. With a suffocating anticipation they wait for me to climb onboard. They wonder why I take so much time to stay or so much time to waste when I could be finding or making. Find a mate, make a family, find a job, make a future. This is my life; I will live it slowly. I will not live my life between sick days and vacation time. I will not live to work until I am no longer useful. I will not work to live only to find that I have no time left for living at the end of each day, season, year, years. I want my work to be life. I settle for nothing less and accept nothing more, an immeasurable self-discipline is one that cannot be judged. There is only now. One foot in front of the other.

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