Just finished reading Into the Wild. I have mixed feelings regarding Chris McCandless, but there is one thing to which I can relate- his "itchy feet." I get so restless. And I'm never satisfied; the more things I do, the more places I see, the more my feet itch. (Okay, maybe I do need a new phrase for it, because that does sound kinda gross...) This was the wrong time to read a book like Into the Wild. I'm already going crazy being stuck in flat, boring, urban Chicago. But on top of that, it's winter, so there's nowhere within a day's drive where I can go hike. Unless I want to freeze. Which I don't. Anyway, I've also had a quite a bit of downtime the past few days. When I wasn't reading, I worked on planning my road trip. The plan is to be gone for 52 days. In that time, I will visit 14 national parks. 12 of those days will be spent canyoneering with Kristin in southern Utah. Then I will head up to Portland to see Paula, stopping at Lassen Vo
National parks, hiking, canyoneering, and other weird sight-seeing