Phase 2 of my trip on the trip is over and why I am pumping the brakes on the blog

Hello! It has been a while since my last blog post, and I have had a couple of people who ask me about my absence, so I just want to register with a quick update.

Phase 2 is over

In summary, phase 2 (which began on June 19, when I returned to the route after a couple of weeks of rest) was much better than phase 1 (you can read about my mental state at the end of phase 1 here). The pain in my knee is gone, I feel physically and emotionally stronger, and I have learned to be much softer and I have allowed more grace with myself. I feel much more comfortable to be alone with my thoughts, spend about 80% of my time in my head and listen to anything. I can feel the change and lessons that the path has given me so far. I felt a strong bond forming with the people I was walking with. I started finding my rhythm.

A silk burning on a walk for dawn

Here is a pointed list of my phase 2 events, without any particular order:

• He jumped 120 miles from Bland, Va, where Phase 1 ended, to Daleville, Va
• 3 days later, I got norovirus and ended up spending a day in my store and 2 days in a motel in good view, it goes
• Delaalized and lonely, I skipped others ~ 200 miles to Luray, goes, in the middle of the Shenondoah National Park
• My first night in Shenondoah, I casually encountered a couple of people I was walking from from the beginning
• I spent the following almost 7 weeks walking 650 miles through 8 states with them
• I spent weeks at the end of being soaked due to heat
• I saw 10 rattlesnakes in 1 day
• Forageed, cooked and ate forest chicken, chattelos and golden oyster fungi
• I saw and I stayed with a friend who hadn’t seen in 18 years
• I had a mapache in my store
• Developed greater sensitivity to how people smell of clean people
• Camping in an entrance theater
• Camped behind a motorcyclist bar
• Caming behind a tavern
• I saw a couple of sunrise
• Canoado in a pond
• Skinny bathed on the Housatonic River
• He collected a video concert helping a friend produce a mini documentary for Ilford Film, which involved filming and hanging out with Tara Dower, the current in the head of FKT (faster known)

Forest Chicken, MD

A Case Maraña, Pa

My point of view for a couple of days while recovering from Noro, Buena Vista, Va

Ferns, md

The end of phase 2 finds me home again for a couple of days before Orlando flys for an annual concert for which I am very grateful, especially at this time. I am writing this part while I feel at Albany airport looking at people in a transition state from one part of their lives to another. There are parents who try to play their children, possibly at the end of a vacation; A woman who takes several selfies, apparently trying to get the perfect postable photo; And a man on the phone talking about how difficult it was to change his flight to get home before. I am too aware of how my hiker’s stench has been left, despite my efforts to shower and wash it. It is an environment of high stimulation in relation to what I am used to. I will be honest, everything is a bit discordant. I am excited to decompress the safety and comfort of my home.

A dollar in the fog, goes

Phase 3 is approaching

Phase 3 begins on August 20. I will jump again in an attempt to catch up with my tramilia and the bubble in which I have been walking during the last 4 months. This time, I am jumping to about 100 miles from where I got out of the path at the top of Mount Graylock to Rutland, VT, where the long trail diverges. I have been interested in making the long path in its entirety, and since they run together for a moment, I can wait and make that section of the at that time. While I prefer not to increase my debt of paths, I firmly believe in smiles before thousands. Although I agree and welcome the challenges and discomfort inherent to a walk, I am not particularly interested in the end of my path that suffers. It is quite difficult as it is. I am far from being a purist right now, so I have no qualms with that plan.

Magnum in Upper Goose Pond, Ma

When I return to the road, I will be alone again, about 4-5 days behind my people. Depending on the rhythm of all and the nature of the land, a great gap could have been closing weeks. I am anxious, sad and excited. I am anxious for the possibility of feeling alone, especially in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, a section that is promoted as one of the most exhausting along the way. It saddens me to be so far from my tramilia and my family faces bubble, and it saddens me from home again. Even so, I am excited about the possibility of meeting new people and pushing out of my comfort zone. I only have 4-5 weeks before the top of Mount Katahdin, so the probability of reaching the people I have been walking with during the last 4 months is quite low, but I hope to do it.

One and Thor going through a Beaver Bog, pa

The future of the blog and my printing press

I am writing this appendix for the publication from my flight back to Albany to start phase 3. I hoped to obtain some more edited photos and in my impression while I was in my parenthesis, but I could not make it come true. When I was not working, I spent my time resting and taking time with people I miss. I want to be able to take my time with the editions and not rush them, so I will leave that for now.

A widdle bruise bee, pa

As for this blog, I will probably get to Pause on it until my walk is over. Writing it is really pleasant and rewarding, but it quickly became another task on its way, and the joy of writing took me out. Again, I would like to take my time and do a good job with him. I want to include photos that I have taken in my camera and edited carefully. While I brought everything I need to download and edit those photos on my phone, the workflow while there is out there, it simply does not work for me. So I will wait until I can sit in front of my computer to compose my publications correctly and carefully, which I am very excited to do. I have some photos edited and ready for the next two publications, so if I find the time to write, I can leave another publication or two. TBD Meanwhile, I will publish in my Instagram and Facebook stories, so be free to follow it there!

One and Thor on a walk through dawn, Shenondoah, Va

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