My Journey to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)

It's nearly 8 o'clock central time, August 19, 2015 and I'm sitting in front of my laptop starting a blog about why I want to hike the PCT and then will soon share the blog for the whole interweb to see. Cool! The only hick up is that I'm wanting to listen to my Spotify but I found out I cannot type and listen to music at the same time BECAUSE the space bar pauses the song. FAIL! Spotify. Please give another option to pausing songs. Thank you!

The Pacific Crest Trail is 2,650 miles of God's creations that stretches from the northern tip of Washington to the southern tip of California. Myself and my two lovely girl friends Crista and Joanne will be completing this journey. I'm from Illinois. Crista is located in Oregon. And Joanne will be flying in from New York. The cool thing is we have NEVER met each other in real life, just on facebook! We all have one thing in common that brought us together. We are MOMs, Mothers of Marines. And our passion for the outdoors, nature, beautiful landscapes and painted skies is a huge part of our final decision to do this.

I was inspired to want to do this most when I watched the movie Wild, the story of Cheryl Strayed who actually hiked the PCT. I am now reading her book. The girls and I are really preparing ourselves. We have a facebook page where we toss anything around involving the PCT ranging from ideas, recipes, our excitement that August 2016 can't get here soon enough, supplies to pack, where to begin the hike, and how long to hike each day. Oh you know stuff like that! I like a good challenge and this most certainly will be a great one next to raising my son solo. So far I have completed my education to receive a bachelors in marketing, earning an AAS in graphic arts, raised a child on my own, and flew in a two-seater with my dear friend. What else is there left to do? Hike the PCT....