Michael & Felecia's PCT Thru Hike: Packing and Mail drops

Michael and our baby 'Tiny' looking through our gear list

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm really really good at procrastinating :). I'd like to think I work well under pressure, and seeing as though Michael and I never really thought this day would come (we couldn't possibly be that lucky...) we saved packing our packs and organizing our few mail drops until now! Don't try this at home, haha!

So, of course yesterday was Murphy's Law. Anything that could go wrong, did. We stopped by EMS to get a couple of last minute things, and figured for the heck of it we'd try and solve my blister problem once and for all. I've been sized, and re sized, gotten the ''best'' socks, tried lacing strategies, you name it, and I still get bad blisters every time I hike.

So, the assistant manager (who is the best by the way) asked me to lace my shoes for him to see if I was doing anything wrong. WELP, with one little tug the lacing system broke! Not the shoe lace, but the actual holds. My shoes were instant garbage. My favorite pair, the ones that were perfectly broken in to start our hike, gone. After a small panic attack things slowly came together. Michael (the assit manager) continued to try and solve the problem. ''What about trying half a size smaller?'' he asked. Dumb founded that no other ''foot specialist'' nor I thought to go smaller we tried it. And so far we think it worked! Michael kindly warranted my shoes, and now I've got some new kicks for the hike! woohooo! Obviously there's no time so brake them in before Friday, so I'm practically sleeping in these babies until we hit the trail.

As if that weren't enough trauma for one day, Michael accidentally dropped my $2,600 computer- that has all our pictures on it, and most importantly OUR GEAR LIST, how we could pack without it, I don't know! When the screen showed up blank I think we both died a little. This time Michael called up an old buddy from work, and wa-lah, he fixed it!!!!!!After all that, I think we got the brake we deserved.

We got our boxes together!!!