I wound up having to get some photos from other individuals at the kickoff because I didn’t take any. I honestly didn’t even take a lot of photos over the weekend. Then we got to the Florida Trail kickoff and all I wanted to do was hang out with friends. You really couldn’t spend any time on your phone. But the last couple of days when we were in the swamp that was not possible. When I’m walking on the road it’s very easy to do voice to text while walking. Typically in Florida I’ve been able to say pretty up on it. Over the last week or so I fell behind a bit on my writing. Seeing everyone over the last few days has been so good for the soul. I was happy to have spent as much time as possible with all of my friends. We have to do 20+ miles today so it’s going to be a long day. We didn’t get back to walking again until around 11:00 a.m. When we got back to the Miccosukee casino, we said goodbye to Tripod and got back on the road. This hike is about to end, whether I like it or not. As soon as I started walking again, I knew it was gonna be over in the blink of an eye. That as long as I was there hanging out this, this hike never had to come to an end. When I was sitting around with everyone at the kickoff, I just kept thinking about the fact. Absolutely nothing could stand in my way. I have about 150 miles to go to get to Key West. You’d literally crawl there if you had to. I knew that no matter how bad my limp was and how much pain I was in there was no chance I wasn’t going to finish. A lot of hikers will joke that with only 100 miles remaining in a hike, that you could literally “Crawl to the end.” That’s how I felt last year on the PCT when I was injured for the last couple hundred miles. It becomes clear to you that no matter what happens you will be completing your thru-hike. If you’ve ever completed a thru-hike, you know that eventually you reach a mileage where all doubt fades. It really isn’t until the way end of a hike that you can really say for sure that you will. When you’re thru-hiking, you often don’t know if you will finish. In the week ahead I will become the second woman ever to walk the entire ECT from key west to Newfoundland. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be completing this hike. Navigating traffic as we hiked along a pretty busy road.Īt this point there is so little mileage left.

Mature eating cream pie pics