We'll see how he does this summer. He definitely wants to go back and complete the missing sections. Maybe I could tag along.

But I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that he pulls through the big part this summer. I told him just last evening that it will take weeks for his body to get used to walking those distances every day.

I only got the first and last of a three-part journal entry from his cell phone today:
7/13- today my goal of 30 miles was soon dissolved as my body decided it couldn't keep pace. Made 16 miles and camped early on a...

...trip and planning to take it easy and enjoy it. Mexico is out there if I make cool...