Legs and Borders

"When I was six I saw this guy standing in the forrest and I thought he was lost so I said: Hey are you ok? And he said: Yeah, you never seen a guy taking a piss in the woods?" Guy (That was his name.. and the trail name. He said this story as he was walking next to me while I was taking a piss beside the trail). Today was a very typical day of hiking, not much disturbance in the force has occured. It started with walking 15 miles to the first and only water source along the path, next one is 8 miles from where I stopped for the camp tonight so it should be easy enough walk in the morning. I met Sea Gypsy again, but it looks like he might have stayed in the camp few miles behind, every other face today was new. I talked for a while with the man called Guy, he lives in Tahoe which is up on the trail in Washington so he is planning to walk back to his house by August. I'm camping alongside an older lady called Big Owl who said that she hikes to make all her work colleagues ...

"I will be silent for a bit, when I'm going uphill I can't talk" David. "I started hiking on March 1st, but I'm living in Big Bear so I already took 44 zero days" David. Today I walked through the infamous section of the trail along the Los Angeles aqueduct. It was a long stretch of flat, baren land with very few features, but it's precisely that what made it interesting. It was a definition of a desert section and before starting the trail that was what I thought first 700 miles will look like. Nugget had to go to the post office to bounce her laptop and excess food to the next convenient point along the trail and since she didn't plan to hike until evening I decided to head out by myself. Weather was supposed to get hot tomorrow and since today was relatively cold day on this stretch it was a perfect time to go through it during the day (a lot of people hike it over night). I put my earphones on and I was listening to the music most of the day,...