[Morning freewrite]
Ah!  A good night's sleep at last.  The secret?  Go to bed at 9 o'clock
because you're so tired out from all the rest you haven't een getting the
rest of the month.  That way when you wake at 6:00 it feels like you've
actually slept for more than 4 hours.

Where am I going today?  It's snowing again.  Yesterday I walked around town
visiting people and going shopping and such.  I can makecookies today.  I
can sew my tarp (Will it really only take a day :-)  So many possibilities.
I have to do them all.

(My mouth is dry.  I suppose it's because I'm excited.  But possibly because
I'm dehydrated.  After all, in civilization you tend not to drink enough
water.  I haven't drunk enough definitely.  Especially with the cold dry air
that whipped through here yesterday.  And I was out walking in that.  Need
to put more liquid back in my body.)

Well, got my stove stand yesterday.  But it was missing the heat shield.  I
think I can send it back and REI will replace it, but I don't know if it'll
get here in time for my leaving to go hiking.  That's okay.  I'll get it
sent somewhere else, I suppose.  Maybe Walassa Yi would be a good place.  Or
else to the first mail drop in Wesser.  Choices, choices.  On the other
hand, I didn't really want it for now -- just for my next winter escapade.
Snow camping needs something so the stove doesn't melkt into the snow....

Hmmm.... But if I go up into Canada in September (To hike teh IAT after
hiking the AT....) maybe I will run into significant snow.  I don't know
what I should really do.  Choices, choices, choices.

Yoiu know, I could just skip the Canada thing.  Come back here and sew a few
sleeping bags for a month or two.  Always an option.  Don't know if that's
the option I should pursue or not, but it is an option.  What else could I
try?

Have to get back here for Trevor's wedding.  Coiuld go to the ALDHA
convention down south just before.  Have to get to Maya's wedding in
December.  Where will I go after that?  Maybe I'll move to Vermont.  I would
love to move North.  But I have to ifnd a job somewhere to make it all
happen.  I don't know.  THings after December are so up in the air....

This is a freewrite about travelling, it seems.  Why is that?  Why am I
making travelling plans?  I'm mapping enough into the future that I can see
my way.  Kind of like nighthiking (Do I like nighthiking because it is so
metaphorical?  Surrounded by light, you cannot see beyond its shell.)

[End morning freewrite]