cyberhobo

Category: Continental Divide Hike

  • The dropoff

    I wake up to a loud alarm at 6 am in the Palace Hotel in Silver City. I kiss Ann and she mumbles “no,” and turns over. I dress and venture out for coffee, but Silver City appears to be closed on Sunday. This doesn’t improve Ann’s mood. Peter sniffs out a place to eat…

  • The lights are on

    This will probably be my last post from a ‘plugged in’ computer! We’re at Peter Gould’s house in Sante Fe. Our solar panels were rescued in Pueblo by a very busy but capable Greyhound employee named Terry. That was a big relief, and I look forward to my first attempt to send a post from…

  • Misadventure Number One

    We’re sitting at the bus station in Colorado Springs! I can’t believe it. I ran to get breakfast burritos when the bus stopped here, and when I came back the driver was unloading our bags. I can’t blame him for not letting us back on – we’d already made him late! It was agony watching…

  • We Go

    The time for planning is over, and the time to act has arrived. Today we tried to accomplish all our leftover tasks in downtown Denver without the car, which we left with Sarah yesterday. We acquired some books to read, replaced lost sunglasses, bought more waterproof bags, suspended the car insurance, printed our itinerary, and…

  • The Things We Carry

    We’re now down to just our backpacks and some supplies we will leave or mail to ourselves later. My pack with no food or water weighs 27.1 lb, Ann’s is 25.2 lb. I hope we can reduce both weights after some trail experience, but I’m not too upset with these initial weights. We have listed…

  • The Things We Eat

    On my Pacific Crest Trail hike Pete and I almost starved due to naive food planning. Fearful from our stories, Ann really put her mind to the problem of providing us with a reasonable diet. The information she compiled follows, starting with the most general and working into more detail. The first items should satisfy…

  • Ann’s announcement

    Today Ann sent this off, her first mass-email: Dear Friends and Family: Many of you know by now that my (newish) husband Dylan and I will be launching off shortly on our delayed honeymoon: On April 18th we will be dropped off on the Mexico/New Mexico border from where we plan to walk north, staying…

  • Supply Schedule

    Today we mailed our first supply packages, which made things feel very real. We’ve updated our supply schedule for the last time before leaving. This is the schedule Dan Kuhn will use to mail our packages to us. Good souls with kind wishes may also use the schedule to mail things to us. Most of…

  • A new kind of job

    It might look, given my recent entries, like we’re sitting around watching movies these days. Actually, organizing our supplies and getting all our gear working has become our new full-time job. I haven’t published any of the many tables and lists we are working on yet, because there are constant revisions, and we want to…

  • Peter Miles Reginold Bergman

    Ann and I are staying at Pete’s house in Denver at the moment. He and his wife Jess are taking care of our dog Jezze while we’re on the trail. They orginally planned to hike with us, and even though circumstances forced them to cancel those plans, they’ll still be playing a major role in…