And the Lucy Barnard, welcome back to Papa Bear hikes.

Thank you.

And at Antra I talked about, you know, the story of you hiking.

You know, obviously you didn't start at the southern tip of South America to hike all the way up to your friends

party there, but I found that very interesting.

I said, wow, that's kind of cool.

I'm gonna go to this party and I'm gonna walk there.

I'm gonna walk to get myself there.

And I gotta tell you that from all the kilometers

that I've done, the easiest kilometers to do have been the ones where I know that I've got someone that I'm walking to in the Latin American areas. I knew nobody, but sometimes people who've been following on Instagram would write to me and say if you need somewhere to stay, I'm coming up like my place is coming up. We're watching on your tracker. You're more than welcome to have a few days off here and just knowing that I have a contact ahead gave me more of a direction because Alaska is kind of like this phantom object to me, but having someone that I know changes everything.

I haven't done nearly as much hiking as you have in my entire life maybe as you have on your track from South America up to Alaska, but I know it myself. I get a little bit more

bounce in my step if I know that when I get off this trail in a day or two or three days,

there's somebody I know waiting for me or there's even

just a warm bed I'm going to be able to climb into in a hot shower and a good meal to eat.

A little bit more bounce in your step, right? A little bit more hey, you know know I'll put in those extra miles with a

smile on my face. The other trip that I've just recently moved back into is having a

penultimate breakfast. So I find that my body does so much better if I eat

dinner at breakfast time and then I just work my way down to the smallest food

portion for dinner and I sleep better that way too rather than having a big heavy meal in my belly.

And so nowadays I will carry something ridiculous in my pack all the way until the second last morning because I feel like that is the morning when I just need a reason to get out of bed.

I think the final morning that's cheating because you know you're getting into town that's exciting but for some

reason mentally that one's tough for me and the other day I was carrying a vegetable

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