Long distance trails and jobs

I just learned about the C2C Route that Andy Skurka is taking. It’s a sea-to-sea hiking route across the Northern US and SE Canada and it’s approximately 7,700 miles. Right now I don’t think I could maintain a 27 mile a day average in order to complete it in the required 9 months. But I think this is the next trip I’d like to take. I’d gotten a little tired of the limitations of interstate and highway travel. This will be a new way to see the country. This also postpones plans to go to Iran next. This means making plans to start this a year from now, paying off debts (I was already on track to have everything but my car paid for by August), plans for Emily, unloading my junk, and finding a storage unit.

The transcontinental trail reminds me of one of America’s original long distance hikers, John Ledyard. He almost circumambulated the globe, and was one of America’s great explorers. This line “Though a born explorer, little resulted from his immense but ill-directed activities” is how I tend to picture myself or who I want to be.

I found the job I want. I read an article on the difficulties of IT with UNAMSIL. It’s about Jason Mayordomo’s efforts to keep all the UN’s information technology working in Sierra Leone. The challenges and rewards from being in the field for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations sound like what I’ve been looking for. Listening: Non Fiction - Black Anger