The weekend in Patagonia was heavenly!
Good food...good bath...great rest...and now we're off again.
This is pretty much what the trail looks like in June...a few scrub trees...a lot of prickly pear cactus...and dried tumble weeds.
Layers of either pinkish or gray dust.
Unbearable heat...even at 10 AM.
It is 88 degrees, now...but expected to reach the high 90's today.
They showed me photos at the Inn of what this looks like in Spring with the colorful blooms.
And this current hellscape makes it hard to believe.
Onward we trudge.
I cameled up before I left town and am back with 5L of clear water...so that is something.
It is out here I will learn that mirages are real...where shimmering pools of water lay just out of reach.
Nothing is moving out here besides me.
Not bugs...not snakes...no animals to be seen (except for range cattle) some of which low as I crunch by.
I wonder how they even survive out here.
By mid-afternoon it is blazing, and although I have made much less than 25 miles I am spent.
Once again wondering if I can possibly complete 700 more miles of this.
I have decided to hike a bit this evening when it is still light...but the sun isn't directly overhead.
Catch everyone on Wednesday.
Love,
(...the desiccated...)
"Beans"
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Waldo- Day 5
