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"While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep ( Read more... ) -
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By eight Greg and I were in Truckee. By eleven we were still standing on the hot side of the road trying to hitch a ride to Sierra City ( Read more... ) -
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Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to who I really was. The radical aloneness of the PCT [Pacific Crest Trail] had altered that sense. Alone wasn't a room anymore, but the whole wide world, and now I was alone in that world, occupying it in a way I never had ( Read more... ) -
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She will never need you - she knows how to pitch a tent and screw her own fins without your help. She cooks well and doesn’t need you to pay for her meals. She is too independent and won't care whether you travel with her or not. She will forget to check in with you when she arrives at her destination. She’s busy living in the present. She talks to ( Read more... ) -
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“I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will ( Read more... )
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