Taking a Long Walk

Lately I feel restless. After completing the PCT in 2021, it took me a long time to figure out what that journey taught me both about myself and about what I wanted in life. I’ve spent a lot of my life with a feeling I’ve just been floating along with my goal or ambition clear in my mind but the ability to reach it just over the horizon. Like I’m fighting to get there, but with the sensation I’m dragging along.

Hiking the PCT is a prime example of this. I cannot count how many times I almost decided to dropout of college but used hiking the PCT as my carrot on a stick to get myself there, hanging on to finish what I was doing, gather the money and complete my actual goal. My current aspiration is owning a home.

I came away from the PCT with a want to have a true space of my own. After moving for 5 months and seeing these little pockets of serenity along the way in people’s lives, the beautiful places I was lucky enough to traverse, I wanted my own piece of beauty that I would love being in everyday. I’ve spent almost a decade renting homes that I would try to make mine but they weren’t truly mine. Over the past few years I’ve found my way to Colorado, and I think it’s a place I’d like to stay but I’m not quite there on the whole home buying part yet.

Whether it be impatience, a need for a bit of gratification or personal habit, I’m going to go for a walk. A little distraction, something to bide my time until I reach my true goal. This summer I’ll be thru-hiking the 567 mile long Colorado Trail from Waterton Canyon near my home, following the backbone of the Rocky Mountains to Durango on the other side of the state.

As with the PCT I’ll be documenting my experience here on my blog along the way both for myself and for others to follow along if you’re interested. I hope you enjoy my journey as much as I hope to.
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Time to start walking, June 14th, 2024.