Off the Grid!

I feel like it's the understatement of the century to say that people are going a little stir crazy lately! I am no exception. We've been super lucky that Matt's job has maintained minimal impacts throughout the crisis, but one of the smaller impacts was being required to burn a week of vacation time at some point in May. Honestly, I perked up at this even though we didn't have anything planned. It is a great time of year to get out and do a backpacking trip that we have wanted to do. Even better, we'd be able to go during the week to help keep off the trails in the popular times.

We are definitely experimenting with "how light can we travel," though I will say that we are both scared of sacrificing too much food so we have PLENTY of that. The forecast also looks favorable as have the last few weeks for us to have plenty of water access. I'm also experimenting with my clothing options so we'll see how that ends up and if I choose correctly!!

Next week I'll update you on where we travelled and how it was -- keeping that off the public space for now just for safety! (that's for you, Mom!)

In the meantime, we have a great IronWomen Podcast episode on tap for tomorrow - so please keep your eye out for that to drop and have a listen. Haley often challenges me with topics that she proposes for the show, and this was no exception. I learned SO MUCH in this episode and I hope you will too!