Estimated
Start Date 4/28/2002 - Actual Start date 4/27/02.
There
is no town here, just a Port of Entry. The first 45 miles is walking along
a straight, flat highway. Sounds boring, but we will be excited to get hiking
and should get through it quickly.
Subject: day 1, 12 miles, 4410 ft

Great day. Up at 5am and took off from Livermore airport shortly after 6.
Absolutely fantastic flight with a tail wind and good views. We cruised up to
13,500 and arrived before our ETA of 5 hours. We at lunch at Dairy
Queen in Demming , bought 4 gallons of water at Walmart to stash and on to
the border.
Officer Journey welcomed us at the border and we started the
CDT 2002 at 3:43. Beautiful country with nice views, birds singing and a
couple of wildflowers.
We are going to bed as the sun sets, trying to type in the dark while balancing
PocketMail on my knee.
Subject: day 2, 26.5 mi, elev 4210
A long road walk. nice flowers, but sparse. We finished at 6:30 at our last
water cache. Our water caches worked out pretty well. A couple we ended up
carrying more water than we would have liked. We are keeping everything inside
the tent because we are so close to the border.
We
talked to 2 ranchers on the road. One was sure to tell us we were on his ranch
for the next 50 miles. He sounded gruff, but was nice.
The weather was warm but less wind than yesterday. We still feel coated with
dust and salt.
... Gottawalk