“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will”. – Mahatma Gandhi The Twenty-Fourth Week – The Final Countdown! Making it to the Canadian border at last! Day 161 –…
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“When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top”. – Anonymous The Fourteenth Week – Stepping Into Summer! Showcasing the green and grand forested hills of Northern California!…
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“Now I see the secret of making the best person. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth”. – Walt Whitman The Thirteenth Week – The…
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“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken”. – Frank Herbert The Twelfth Week – Into The Unknown After such spectacular scenery in the High sierra, we weren’t sure what…
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“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far”. – Thomas Jefferson The Eleventh Week – Mission: Mosquito Avoidance Reflections of the Milky Way captured from Marie Lake at Mile 866.…
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“If you start, don’t give up, or you will be giving up at difficulties all your life”. – Alfred Wainwright The Tenth Week – A Pass Per Day Stood in the entrance to the…
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“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era, or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with…
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“The mountains are calling… And I must go”. – John Muir The Eighth Week – Entering The Wonderland Reaching a significant milestone on the PCT… 700 miles done and we can finally wave farewell…
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills The Seventh Week – Staying Strong And Making Strides To Reach The Sierra Making it to Mile 550… Because every step counts!…
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“Walking is man’s best medicine”. – Hippocrates The Sixth Week – Perseverance Will Prevail Into the desert proper… Taking respite from the sun under a cactus palm as we cross the western arm of…
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“Potest quia posse videntur – He can because he thinks he can”. – From ‘The Pacific Crest Trail’, Cicerone, by Brian Johnson Muir The Fifth Week – Turning Into Walking Machines… Celebrating being a…
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“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”. – Terri Guillemets The Fourth Week – In It For The Long Haul… This week we reached 300 miles…
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“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out I found was really going in”. – John Muir The Third Week – Upping Our Game……
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“To walk for long periods is to escape the quotidian, to leave jobs, people and life’s minutiae for routines of a different, more nourishing kind. The effects of solitude, like those of landscape, accrue…
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“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time”. – Steven Wright The First Week – Breaking Ourselves In! Beginning our dream hike across western USA on the Pacific Crest Trail. Day 1 –…
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How To Sum Up A World Trip? People are always asking us which countries we have visited and if we have a favourite place. Such a tough question! It is so difficult to pin-point…