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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explores.

I'm a link between my parents and my children and grandchildren. It bothers me that that gap will perpetuate in effect.

The same problem that I see is that we just don't know what's out there. We don't know we can belong out there. We don't know that there's so much to to explore and to discover and to do.

And so that gap, that gap between parents and children

and grandparents and children will just continue

if we don't get older people out there showing their faces. This is Carolina leavenos Garcia. She goes by Kato.

It's just the first four letters of my name and it's pronounced like the last part of Avacato.

Kato hadn't heard of she explorers before.

A friend told her she should listen to episode number 54, which is called 50-plus and is filled with stories of women over 50 years old.

In that episode, I noted in the opening that I didn't think any women of color had contributed.

Enter Kato. She's 56, born in California and the daughter of parents

born and raised in Mexico. Kato's relationship with the outdoors in the more traditional sense started around age 50 when she retired from working corrections.

In those six years, she's run 26 half marathons in 18 states. She loves backpacking. She's

hiked half-doned twice and section hike 90% of the John Muir Trail. In short,

she's made up for lost time. You just heard Kato reference

the gaps that can build up between generations. Closing these gaps is

something that Kato is passionate about for many reasons, strengthening

familial bonds, better understanding each other, feeling culturally connected, as well

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