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Our friend, Lucy Barnhardt, has a smile from ear to ear and she's glowing.

It's not because she's in the sky with diamonds, it's because she's in beautiful

Costa Rica, resting up for the next leg of her journey through the Americas.

Let's get an update from Lucy.

Here to give us an update, I'd heard big trip or big hike from one end of South America

up to the North American continent, to the northern tip of North America.

It's our friend, Lucy Barnhardt.

Lucy, welcome back.

Thank you. It's good to be here again.

Lucy, it's, I'm seeing you, you got big smile on your face, you look comfortable.

So everything's going well, I guess.

I mean, yeah, the kilometers are going by the way that I would expect them to,

but that's not to say there's not challenges.

I'm really in the thick of the wet, I'm not even in the thick of the wet season,

but I am struggling with it because it's just not something we've had to deal with yet.

So maybe the smile is because I'm in town and I've got access to good food.

That'll make hikers happy, any hike or any through hike, I'll tell you,

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