May 8 Mileage 10 85 miles from Mexico Dead-bird water for my morning oatmeal. Walkin ten miles over the bright open desert to Lordsburg, flat windblown little town with the nicest people you'll ever meet. We eat burgers and I take a wonderful shower. Do laundry. Run errands. Pay bills on my phone. Lay in … Continue reading CDT day 4: Lordsburgers

Mileage: 25 75 miles from Mexico I sleep good and wake up feeling like my real hiker self- ready to walk all over this convoluted earth. Today is going to be great. The boys slept good too and we hike fast across the big open desert, dropping lower and the plants growing sparser until we're … Continue reading CDT day 3: pyramid mountain and the big flat thing

May 6 Mileage 25 50 miles from Mexico The full moon rises heavy and yellow and bathes everything in silvery light. The birds go crazy, like it's morning. I don't know how I'll sleep, but then I do. In the morning I feel like shit. It's a hangover- a desert hiking first-week-back-on-the-trail hangover. Oh well, … Continue reading CDT day 2: hangover

May 5 Mileage 25 25 miles from Mexico There is a sleep deprived flight, Tuscon full of heat lightning, reunited with my nice dude-friends Spark, Track Meat and Mehap, all grown slightly older and wiser and I guess I have too. We walk delerious through sunday-night Tuscon, which is full of drunk hipsters, until we … Continue reading CDT day one: I feel/about/because

Waiting for my flight. Everything got done, nothing went awry that couldn't, eventually, be fixed. All the signed books have been shipped! Woo-hoo! They're en route via media mail, which takes 5 to 9 business days. International orders take longer. If your book hasn't arrived after two weeks please email me- carrotquinn4@gmail.com. I've been thinkin … Continue reading Sleep deprived at the airport