2 days in a row of not hiking. What an odd thing. What’s even more, I went to the movies today. Tehachapi has a tiny movie theatre with 4 screens. Merlin, Marble, IPA and me went to see ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’. To have the full american experience, I of course went in with …
Slow day. I slept in until 8. Feels so good. I got the practicalities out of the way early and Guillaume and I headed to Walmart for the obligatory resupply. On the way we saw High Five, No Bear and Christopher. High Five planning to lounge in his hotel’s pool for 2 days to let …
In the morning I said goodbye to Coyote. He would get a ride from Hikertown back to LA for his flight home. Fuck, this sucks. I feel for him as well, he was having a blast here and it pains him even more than me to leave. Goodbye Coyote, see you on the other side. …
This is it then, the final day with Coyote. We reached Hikertown, the place where our shared journey ends. After being together for this long, it feels weird and sad. I still half expect us to get up together tomorrow, plan out the next water source and head off. We shared so much together: nature, …
‘Never judge people at first sight’, Scout had sagely told us, on a day that now seems a lifetime ago. And right he was. He was right in the case of Dirty Mike and he was oh so right when it comes to Calves. As I wrote earlier, I wasn’t too fond of Calves. His …
We had heard word the next spring on trail had received the nickname ‘Fart Water Spring’, due to its sulphuric properties. Upon seeing the sad, leafy puddle that was Fart Water Spring, we opted to skip it and instead head to the water cache further down the road, which was supposed to still be full. …
The heat is picking up again. We left Acton early in the morning, being kept up at night by the constant traffic and intermittently honking trains passing next to the campground. It was a race to get to Agua Dulce, the next small town before the heat got too bad. By 8am, I was already …
Short day today, not too much to report. It was hot, I tried to power through the miles and get to Acton, where there would be hot food and camping for us. Fun surprise was to see Russell again, maybe for the last time, as he seems to be doing giant miles. Today he was …
We walked a marathon today and did 10 miles before 10am. Those are the highlights. I walked and walked and walked and I’m sore and tired, so goodnight! I also met someone who was an engineer at SpaceX for 5 years, Lavalamp.
What a day. Descending from Baden-Powell, the trail swirled around the highway for most of the day, going up and down in the surrounding hills. After a bit of roadwalking along the highway (which wasn’t fun and populated with motorbikes), a campground came up, with a large group of people around a table. ‘Trail magic!’ …
