“Pines to Palm Highway” Melissa and I were picked up this afternoon by a friend, Jackie, whom I used to work with at Boojum Institute for Experiential Education. We stopped by the grocery store before coming to the “base,” a small lot containing a few trailers, a large gear shed, Read more…
April 29, 2010 [singlepic id=1 w=640 h=480 float=center] Hi, it Melissa’s Mom again. Melissa must be using an iPhone app to send me their location coordinates, because I received a somewhat cryptic message from her today with her latitude and longitude information. This is where they were at about 11:43 Read more…
We made it 109 miles to the small historic resort town of Warner Springs (population 203)! This afternoon we enjoyed warm showers, cleaning our clothes in a bathtub (it was muddy brown liquid!), and cheeseburgers for dinner as well as a dip in natural hot springs and good convo with Read more…
“3rd gate cache” Blisters: 0 for both of us! Oddest food combo: hummus, pretzels, and sardines in hot sauce on a pita I am lying in the shade of a tiny Juniper tree accompanied by Justin and Five Miles Back in the middle of Anza-Borrego’s mountainous Desert. With a Read more…
“Long Canyon” 0 blisters to date. We are finally on the trail again! After a zero day to pick up a new iPhone and another two days waiting out an insane storm that blew through Lake Morena, we were ready to hike this morning! I woke up to a tent Read more…