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Through sickness and in health...and hiking.

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   Currently I am sitting here with a really light head, upset stomach, and not much of an appetite. So far my weekend has been spent getting over the stomach flu. It isn't fun. Your marriage will truly be tested when your spouse gets a stomach flu because really gross stuff happens and you have to decide is it worth it to take care of this person? Ron got sick before me and it wasn't pretty. I couldn't do anything for him and then stuff got gross and I had to either clean it up or just go “nope, screw it I'm done”. I cleaned it up. Why? Because I love him and it sucks when you're sick and I wanted to make him as comfortable as I could and part of that is cleaning up whatever mess is made. Unfortunately for him, he had to turn around and do the same for me 3 days later. Lets just say this stomach flu is not pretty.    Moving on, I had an epiphany this week, before I got sick. I got to that point where I gave up on eating healthy and I knew I was gaining weigh...

I peed in the woods today

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Ok so I didn't actually pee in the woods today but I did the last time I went hiking which was a couple of weeks ago. I had to pee so badly and when you're hiking there aren't restrooms so I stepped off the trail into an area that had a group of trees and concealed myself as best I could and peed. I had a towel that I could wipe myself with and then went along my way. It was weird but walking the AT I'm gonna have to get used to doing more than that in the woods. Let's actually take a moment to discuss that because as a new person to hiking I am fully aware that I'll be leaving certain things in the woods but you can't just leave it there; as a hiker we want to leave no trace of ourselves which is why there is a set of principles called Leave No Trace. When I first started hiking I'd didn't know of this concept but you naturally want to keep the environment you're hiking in pristine at least that's my natural reaction. There is a reason why...