After church on Sunday, we were talking to some friends of ours, Sue and Sonny. Gail and Sue were teachers together a couple of years ago and we got to know them better watching their son Conrad playing for Jackson High School. He's a senior trying to make the difficult decision about where to go to college, play football for Lewis and Clark College, or enroll in the Engineering School at Hawaii. No bad choices either way!
During the conversation, we were talking about our summer plans, and I mentioned to Sonny that I was going on this 93 mile hike around Mount Ranier. Sonny's response: "So, how long is it going to take you? About three days?" Sonny, you see, is a Army Reservist. Going through drills every month and spending a tour of duty in Iraq a couple of years ago, he sees this as a weekend bivouac.
Needless to say, I'm looking at more of a 12 day trip. I'm not looking for a death march.
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