Coming Together

To say Julia and I are novice hikers is an understatement. We don't have a ton of experience with hiking and camping, especially not when it comes multi-day trips, let alone a multi-MONTH expedition! You can only imagine the amount of planning that has had to go into this thing. We had to learn about hiking and camping, the specific equipment we'd need for THIS trail, countless logistical details, nutritional concerns, plans for what we're doing with our place / stuff in Ottawa and so on and so on and so on. An incredibly daunting task, but over the 10 or 11 months, all of these tasks have been taken care of, or are in the process of being taken care of. We're down to the more finite details of everything, desperately trying to avoid overlooking ANYTHING. Just yesterday we received a letter from the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA) confirming our membership with them. It included a map overview of the trail and a sticker!

We don't move out until the end of March, but we'll be staying out in Stittsville for all of March, so we've already began some packing and organizing our stuff, selling some, giving away some and throwing some out. I figure, the more we can do in the month of February, the easier life will be in March, when we have to move everything to our storage locker in Kanata and the more time we'll have to take care of all the final details of the wedding and getting ready to leave for Campo.