Training done

Well, no, it didn't look exactly like that. But it was classroom training AFTER we'd done online internet training. It went well, other than some of us, me included, being exhausted from driving an hour and a half or more in the heat of the plateau leading to the gulley of Atlanta. I said gulley not gutter. You want a heat index of 107* today? That's what Atlanta had. I'm sure we were close to 97* easily. Blacktop highways are HoT. No getting around it. Especially when all the trees are cut back for convenience.

I'm glad the training is over. Maybe I can get some of my life back together.

Or not.

I'm threatening to quit my job when I reach 62. You wouldn't believe the number of people in this week's small newspaper who have passed away and were not even sixty years old! My grandmother was 60 when I was born. Sixty is just NOT old in my family. Ninety five is old. Sixty is "second wind."

I'm thinking of taking Kung Fu or Tae Kwan Do. Finding an instructor in this small mountain town is the problem now. I want to be fairly proficient, maybe a second or third belt, by the time I hike the AT.

Yes, that's still in the planning. So little time, so many trails.

Happy Trails to you.