1800 Miles, 3 Months...Finished (for now?)

Yay!! Our summer journey of 1,830 miles across the varied terrain of California and Southern Oregon has come to an end after 3 months on the trail. It was glorious, it was painful at times, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
It feels like a dream now, some two months later. This is a blessing and perhaps a curse.
Blessing: fond memories remain. We look back and think: hey that was kinda fun.

Curse: fond memories remain. We look back and think: hey that was kinda fun. Or worse, sometimes we can´t even remember what it was like at all and we think: Hey what do you think it would be like to hike the PCT? Hey, that sounds crazy, maybe we should try it. And so the rest of Oregon and Washington calls.... (when we´re warm, our tummies are full, and most importantly, when we´re not walking 25 miles a day.)

And now we´re in Guatemala with Jon´s sister, Maria, attending language school for six weeks. No, we didn´t walk here.

Thank you everyone for your prayers and encouragement, even though some of you dirty rascals were sending bad vibes with your negative thoughts. May the Lord not punish you with a 1800 mile walk. And anyone who wonders why we didn´t go to the remaining 800 miles to the Canadian border, please walk the length of the State of California and then we´ll have a good long talk about it over a pint of Ben and Jerry´s ice cream (a thru-hiker´s must-have).

Much love and fewer miles,

Jon and IvaJo