We’re on the final countdown, with only a week(ish) left before J and I finally start our hike. To-date our training has consisted of ordering fries AND a shake when we go to In’N’Out, but since some training is better than none, we’ve started putting some miles on our trail runners this week. Yesterday we…
This better be my last test ever.
I’ve spent the entire last week in a last-ditch, desperate attempt to transform myself into a civil engineer. An inverterate procastinator, only true panic can chain me to a chair 10 hours a day, as I go over all the topics I never learned in an undergraduate in geological engineering. Transportation, wastewater sludge digestion, trusses…
Places left behind
I’m not sure why, but Suriname has been on my mind lately. Maybe the prospect of a new adventure has reminded me of my last one. It’s strange to think that I haven’t lived in Suriname, in Tutu Buka, at the back of the futbol field, for four years now. My Saramakan is getting rusty, and…
Check that off the bucket list
Well, I can check root canals off my bucket list now. I hear my alarm go off this morning, so I turn it off and roll over. A bit later, it seems like it’s getting pretty light out. “I wonder what time it is,” I think. I check the clock – plenty of time to get…
Root canals and chores
The great fount of knowledge, the internet, tells me that more and more PCT hikers are starting the trip EVERY DAY. Every day. And while my engineering exam looms frighteneningly large, the extra week and half to starting hiking seems like a long ways away. Which is good, really. I’m not ready. I finally went…
Weekends all the time
The weekend is here early! This will be my last “weekend” for a while – the last weekend that has work looming on the other side. Wowzers! It’s nice to feel that my trip is actually coming up soon, instead of remaining impossibly far away. It’s been feeling like the carrot on the end of…