2 Weeks Down: Conclusions Drawn Thus Far

Actually, my first night was June 28th, so I guess it's officially been 16 nights without a car, a bed, or a roof over my head.

I can honestly say I don't miss any of it.

Some conclusions:
-I sleep better than I do in a bed, and actually go to sleep earlier than when I had an apartment. There's not exactly a plethora of things to do once you've set up your tent, so you just go to bed when it gets dark.

-Walking and biking to work and around town for errands is great extra time for training.

-Already, my bills are declining. I'm going to have my only credit card paid off by the end of August. That leaves 2 relatively small student loans. It just gives me incentive to go all winter..or at least until we start the 25 below zero stuff.
I have this dream of being debt free...how that will open up so many options in my life. I'm obsessed with it the idea of it.

-It's hard to "plan" the two things taken most for granted when I had an apartment: food and showers. I figured the shower thing would be easy: show up at the gym every morning, workout, then shower. Nope. It takes about 30 mins to pack up camp, then I've got anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours coming back into town. Often times, that gets me into PI just in time to get to work...and I would feel weird signing into the gym just to shower and leave. Again, planning.

-Lastly, the beard itches. I go through spells where I hate it, and then times where I kind of like it because it fits what I'm doing.

-The amount of people that have supported this mission is amazing. Almost everyone thinks it's a kick ass idea. Special thanks go out to Mel and Penny, as I have crashed in their backyards on numerous occasions on those nights where weather was bad or I had trained until it was too late to go out into the woods.

Don't forget to vote. Only half the followers have voted!
2 days until my assault on as many peaks as I can bag from July 17th to 31.
In planning, the majority might be right in voting on 11-15 peaks, simply because of the lack of mountains in the County.
I'd still like to get more, though!

Have a good day...
krp