Thanks Ringtail.

Yesterday, I did 6.5 miles on the American Discovery Trail. I can see how the road experience can be just as fun as the wilderness experience. They really aren't all that different in many ways.

Water can be a problem along the road. There wasn't any yesterday.I was on a bicycle trail which wasn't near anyplace to get water. I know what's coming up and there isn't any for about 40 miles or so. The trail is right next to a river, but I wouldn't feel safe drinking from it.

I'm calling what I'm doing "nano-hiking." Park the car and out and back a small segment. One thing I've learned is it would be easy to focus on very difficult segments far down the trail and forget the difficulties of the seemingly easy section. And I need sunglasses. After walking on the white concrete for a couple hours my eyes were pretty tired.

But with practice, the hard becomes easy, the impossible becomes hard, and one learns to go around the truly impossible.