Here we go!

A year of planning and preparing and double checking everything for a therd thurd third time and I'm on my way! Just arriving in San Diego where I'll meet my friends Clara and Shelby. Clara's parents are kindly giving us a ride to the trailhead in Campo, CA in the earrrly morning. We'll all start the trail together and walk to hiker kickoff tomorrow (more on "adzpctko" later).

I'm coming' for ya, High Sierras!

I'm all sorts of strung out from nine hours of food-packing insanity.. I actually have some PTSD so I'll spare the details, but it was scream-inducing. Mind-numbing. I recommend NOT putting off food prep until two days before your hike (duh). But it's done, and in my wonderful parents' capable hands. They'll be shipping as I go, thank goodness. All the last-minute prep work left me with no time to get out and run much this past week, so hopefully my body remembers how to exercise.

Besides that, though, I'm feeling so excited and ready. This is my path! There is no other place for me to be!

IT'S HAPPENING!