Highlands Trail 550

What a trip. Something about the weather and the terrain and my unfamiliarity with this part of the world makes this race seem like something I stepped into and out of, a world of its own which has very little to do with my day to day life. There is a little bit of a veil in my mind of what it is like out there. When I look back, it feels like I’m looking through the rainstreaked glasses I spent the majority of the race staring out of. My vision of what happened is tired and hard to focus READ MORE

In the Rain and on the River

Cognitively, we knew that at some point on this trip we would have to deal with some real rain, but now that we are actually dealing with it, we are reminded of just how luxurious the dry weather we’ve encountered on most of this trip is. We are now in Panama, and have caught in a low pressure system that spans the majority of the Caribbean side of Costa Rica and Panama. Our first night in Costa Rica we paid for a room in a hotel, enjoying the opportunity to make veggie sandwiches and get a shower after a long READ MORE