Legs and Borders

"When I was hiking AT in 2015, I got my legs after a month." Wall-E "We were walking one day and we can hear rattling, it was afternoon so we though it was cicadas, then we turned around the corner.. and it definitely wasn't cicadas." The Dude and Bugs. It was a long and unexpectedly interesting day. We woke up in the morning after a night full of noises ranging from neighbours shouting above us, to train horns and helicopters. Tom wanted to get McDonalds in the morning, I wasn't that hungry since I finished eating yesterday's pizza (microwave even had a pizza setting!) but I wouldn't say no to a coffee. We set off from the room at 6:45 and headed towards nearby McDs but unfortunately it was closed, so we went to a Starbucks instead. Uber driver picked us up half an hour later and by 8am we were back on the trail. I didn't have the best start, my shins were a bit sore from the four mile push through the windy desert last evening, so I said to Tom...