[pct-l] After the Hike

[AaronandCory@netscape.net (AaronandCory@netscape.net)]

Forgive me, I have only done parts of the PCT, but after my AT thru-hike I noticed a couple of different things that depressed me:

1.  Drive thrus- any and all.  I felt like a sane world would not include these crazy things, going to them made me feel extremely sad.
2.  People, I would smile and no one cared.  On the trail, it was rare to pass another human and not speak or a least acknowledge them.
3. Smells, not just that other people smelled "good"/overwelmingly perfumed, etc, but that when I got up in the morning I did not hear a breeze, I did not feel sunshine, and I could not hear birds.  
When I jog in the mornings now, sometimes I get a whiff of pine or a a flowering bush or just a hint of rain and I get all sentimental about the trail and what those subtle smells used to mean to me- utter freedom and happiness.

Cross Country
AT '99, PCT '02
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