[pct-l] Silly Questions?

[StoneDancer1 at aol.com (StoneDancer1@aol.com)]

There will probably be more posts than two... and all will give different  
advice, as have the first two.  It depends of one's individual  personality.  I 
live in the Sierra foothills, have no neighbors for half a  mile, and am 
becoming more and more reclusive.  On the other hand, on the  Trail, the "town 
experience" seems to be a magic part of the trip.  It's  almost a fly-on-the-wall, 
transcendental experience for me... a Gurdjieff Sacred  Dance Show, where any 
manner of startling, outrageous, fantastic thing could  happen at any second. 
 It's most likely  a matter of alcohol,  endorphins and sensory overload... 
but it's marvelous none the same, and, for a  civilization-shunning hermit such 
as myself, it continues to surprise me that  some of my most memorable 
experiences occur in those 24 hours in which I brush  up against an anonymous 
civilization and then scurry rapidly back to the Trail.  

"No Way" Ray  Echols