Hiked the soles off my shoes and I didn’t realize it until after walking the white line out of Kearney. Choosing the road walk through two towns I’d never seen rather than the section of the Arizona Trail I’d already hiked. Through Winkleman and Mammoth, where my hope had been to hike Aravaipa Canyon while I was in the area. Only permits weren’t available on a walk-in basis, and there was no availability online for the next month. Sadly, I had time before replacement shoes would arrive in Oracle, but nowhere else to go. Suddenly the hike was on hold.
Silver lining: forced writing retreat. Though, thumb-typing out in the desert wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.
#AZT #wandering