06/13/23 Miles 207-266: Location: Big Bear. Zero day! Hotel and shower and laundry and town foods and drum roll…. The day my best friend arrives to hike 7 whole days with me! LET’S GOOOOOO!!! Thus far I’ve written allllll about my challenges, emotional, physical, and mental, although very real, I’ve been growing tired of that…

06/08/23 Mile 179.4 – 207 I am currently at the Cabazon Public Library with my dirty, stinky, nasty self, charging all my devices so I can make it 4 more days on trail without panicking my loved ones because I haven’t checked in. So far, I’ve hiked 200 miles in silence. I like my own…

Somewhere between miles 77-179.4: It happened! One minute I was walking along when I looked up and was surprised to find 5 miles had gone by in a flash. How did I get here? What were my thoughts the last 5 miles? I couldn’t tell you, I was in “Flow State.” “Flow State” Flow state…

06/03/23 Mile 77-179.4: You can love the desert… but the desert doesn’t always love you back. Just when you think you are becoming one with the desert and the desert is becoming one with you… BAM! Rattlesnakes come raining from the sky! The biting flies you thought were gone, come back, the sun burns extra…

05/27/23 Zero Day: It’s happened. The day has come. What day you ask? The day I became THAT guy. Who you ask? Sandals and socks guy! That’s who! You’re a little different, from being homeless, posting up in restaurants to get warm, charge your electronics, and to use the bathroom, to sitting in the town…

05/26/22 Zero day: Julian is a very charming town! I’m sick of it! I’m itching to go torcher myself in the desert some more, I don’t want more bug bites, but I want more bug bites, I don’t want to cry under a bush, but I want to cry under a bush, if you know…

05/25/23 Zero day: I slept at the Julian Lodge last night, this town is super charming. I went to a little country cafe and had breakfast as big as my head, I also met a cute older couple from Mukilteo, Wa. Such a small world this is. I had enough leftovers for lunch and dinner!…

05/24/23 Zero day: We woke up at 5am and packed up our gear, I decide to stay back to try and get a ride to an urgent care to look at my leg. I send the girls off and a different adventure starts. Trying to find where to go and how to get there from…

05/23/23 Miles 32-42: 10 miles to Mount Laguna and a little store to grab more snacks and re supply until I get to Julian for some packages. I bunked up with Izzy and Julia (two other quirky thru hikers) in the Laguna Mountain Lodge. Both were a welcoming distraction! Management gave us 5 gallon buckets…

05/22/23 Miles 20.5-32: Monday. I woke up early, refreshed and ready for the day. The pain in my leg hasn’t gotten worse, but it hasn’t improved. 🤷🏻‍♀️ My usual mentality for things like this is rub some dirt in it, keep going, it’ll be FINE, but being so far out from any kind of help…