Trying To at Twenty-Five: The Blog

I have officially been on the road for 6 days and by tomorrow’s 9am, I will have travelled a total of 150km of trail. Physical updates: My socks have not been properly dry for 4 days and that is making for some exceptionally uncomfortable blisters. I feel a sharp pain in my left heel when I try do down dog…

I write today from Merriview Hut, where accommodation is $15 NZD inside the hut and $10 NZD if you choose to pitch your tent; an extra dollar earns you a fresh egg, which you can boil in water from the running tap. And this is my paradise, today, for last night when I shimmied into my sleeping bag and shut…

I woke up rather slowly this morning; it’s really something how good a sleep feels after you’ve earned it! Not that you have to earn sleep! But you know what I mean! I’m in that space between spaces, the purgatory-esque realm between my body’s old schedule and the new one to which it will so quickly adapt. And so, I…

I covered 40km today. Half of it quite quickly, thanks to Lilly and Haley, the mother/daughter duo who picked me up quite soon after I hit the main road this morning. It was windy and, as I learned from the backseat of her car, Haley takes pride in her capacity for helping others. When she dropped me at the Pak…

It was sunny today in Auckland, funnily enough, and I emerged from the bathroom at the Grand Harbour Chinese restaurant, after my first ever yum cha, wondering if there may ever come a day when I stop being scared right before I do scary things. I got in my Uber, leaving mom and brother behind, and I cried softly, wishing…

I recently saw a painting with scribbled words (my favorite manner of words): “tomorrow will be the same but not as this is” (Upon further research: Colin McMahon was a New Zealand artist whose work often featured overlayed text <3) And so I wanted to type up an ode to 2023, just so I maybe one day look at this…