Original article on www.vagabondjourney.com
Most of my life I’ve been healthy and physically fit. I’ve hiked fifty miles in one day several times. Just ten years ago I hiked from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to the South Rim in 14 hours. That’s a distance of 25 miles involving elevation changes of 11,000 feet and temperatures up to 125 degrees. But that was then. This is now.
Now I’m 66 years old. Everything hurts more than it did. Everything takes longer to stop hurting. In short, I’m slowly disintegrating. For a traveler, this is not good. I still want to walk the streets of new towns and hike the trails of new mountains. I’m not ready to buy a cane and hobble like some old man. Lately though, this is exactly what I have found myself doing.
