Marilyn Ball, the host of Speaking of Travel, invited me to her radio show and podcast to discuss my long-term travels and my recent arrival to Argentina. I arrived in Argentina a few days before speaking with Marilyn, so I talked about what it was like flying abroad for the first time since March 2020 in a “post covid” world.
I had been traveling full-time for nearly 15 months. One thing I didn’t expect was to lose close friends as the distance between us grew each day. Friends who suddenly felt they couldn’t relate to me any longer.
People don’t always realize that traveling is work – and that work was starting to catch up to me. It’s constant research, doing, seeing, experiencing, driving, and in my case, writing. It’s why I’ve gotten so behind in my blog. At least I was able to go on a tour of a rum distillery and met some fellow travelers who also house and pet-sit!
While I was in Darwin, I had the opportunity to meet up with an old friend from Los Angeles and meet a friend of his too. The three of us had been traveling for more than a year, so we understood what we were all experiencing.
Throughout her wild 3-week journey backpacking 220+ miles in the California Sierra Mountains, Christy encountered freezing temperatures, pelting hail storms, and losing her way, but found trail family, incredible views, and experiences that would change her life forever. Hiking up and over ten different mountain passes gave Christy a lot of time to think about why her nine-year marriage was falling apart, gave her the chance to truly embody her individualism, time to make new friends, and the strength she would need on and off the trail. Her life could never again be the same.
This is one woman’s account of the three weeks she spent on the iconic trail.
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