hobolinks :: CDT Excerpts

Nocona’s newly started journal is quite promising (and includes quotes from other writers as inspirational as her own):

In my heart, I’ve wanted to cross the Rockies, just like Bridger or Coulter, since I was able to think. It’s something I’ve known, inside of me, and no matter how distracted I have become along the way, my internal compass always swings me back around to this. Traveling on foot through the Rockies is where I should be, where I belong.

Bethany on the privilege of hiking:

thruhiking is a privileged way of life. some days feel more so than others, but every day hiking is one that i’m not working, one where i can carry everything i need to live comfortably. i walk through beautiful places. and i meet beautiful people.

And Shaggy on the Pizza Hut buffet:

We made the pizza hut buffet. It wasnt so good as we hoped, but we got full.

What is it with Pizza Hut that even a starving hiker is disappointed? I made the mistake of visiting the Pizza Hut buffet in Gunnison after 8 days on the trail, and succeeded only in making myself so sick I was doubled over for two hours afterward…