Cloudy this morning with heat on the way, so I put on my boots and pack and walked along the power lines for an hour. A horsefly stopped by for a blood meal and didn't survive the experience. In retrospect, I could have just let her take it. To her it was everything. To me, a momentary inconvenience.
I did a lot of sweating. Nothing about it felt easy or enjoyable, but I was thinking about the Camino de Santiago and the world getting hotter by the minute and how there may not be much opportunity for recreational long distance walking in our future.
When I made it home again, I stepped on the scale with clothes, boots and pack (along with the gallon or so of sweat trapped in their fibers). 272 pounds. That's a load.
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