It’s been a week since our last post and six days since we left Campo. It’s been a hard but beautiful week. What we’ve found is that as awe inspiring as some of the views we have seen are the people who have been a part of the journey thus far. People who through their kindness and goodness have made our experience possible and rich. 

• Family who has helped and is helping with our resupplies. 
• Friends who generously gave to our cause.   
• Buds who drove us to the airport to start this crazy journey. 
• Strangers on the bus who went out of their way to guide and redirect us. 
• A friendly face when we looked like we needed one. 
• A bus driver who shared her story with us and wished us well with ours. 
• Fellow hikers who have rooted for us and offered advice. 
• Trail angels who show up at just the right time offering us watermelon, or a cold drink (cactus cooler- a really delicious orange pineapple soda), or a ride when our legs can’t go any further. 

We have been recipients of kindness and goodness, we have seen humans at their best and it has made the start of our trek sweet and awe inspiring. 
Mattea wrote in her journal earlier this week and it continues to be true, “Humans are good, kind, helpful and caring. Don’t let encounters with the few who aren’t blind you from all who are.”  
Strangers have reminded us that humans are good. Be good, be kind… you might be a part of someone else’s hike.  
Happy trails, 
M & B 
Trail Log 

• Day 1 – 12.5 miles 
• Day 2 – 15 miles 
• Day 3 – 16 miles 
• Day 4 – 10 miles 

Animal Spottings  

• 1st rattlesnake at mile 4 
• 4 snakes on our first day 
• Bobcat on day 2 
• Lots of lizards, bunnies, horned lizards, a couple wild turkeys with Luke,another hiker who started the same time as us.

Mattea signing the register at the trailheadwe made it! To mile 1! Mattea rigged up a clothes line!  Highlight of our day!