Acton to bouquet canyon rd - 21.3 miles

Total - 465.6 miles

Slow start to the day as we were holding onto the Airbnb as long as we could. Last night was truly made my blood boil as the neighbor played country music through the entire night for their goddamn goats or something. Marc had opened the window and we thought the music would stop but when I woke up around 2am slightly hung over I could hear Luke Bryan playing full blast. It kept me up for while but then I got too tired and finally fell asleep. But guess what I heard in the morning? Goddamn country. And I like country but I like my sleep more. We packed up after taking morning showers and hitched a Lyft back to the acton trailhead which took so long but we started around 10ish I would guess. It was two major ups before a down into agua Dulce where we were planning on seeing Christian again! I caffeinated for the first time and I was juicingggggg. No uphill could stop me. I was also listening to music which helped so time, miles, and thoughts sped by. Nothing too special about the landscape but I was sweating bullets. Definitely started to feel like we were in the desert again. Right before agua Dulce is where it got interesting as the rock formations came out of nowhere. It was very similar to southern utah so that was a nice reminder of home. We saw a giant beehive in one of the holes in the rocks which was pretty cool but I couldn’t get a good picture of it. The rocks were rutting out of the ground but had layers to them (like an onion - shrek reference;)) one of the layers looked unnatural like concrete with little pebbles sticking out of the main material. Very very cool. After we passed through the park we headed into agua Dulce aka a road walk to the oasis where Christian was. Truly a great oasis with all a hikers wants and needs in one place. Plus he had hammocks so I was rocking with it. We ate lunch and headed out around 2:50 for our final 11 miles. These were the worst and best miles as it was so much elevation but with the most beautiful views. I was dying going up and sweating from every pore in my body. I was downing water and electrolytes any chance I got. We got passed by a motorcyclist which was strange as they are not permitted on the pct trail so it was a lil frustrating in my heated, delusional state to step off trail for something that doesn’t even belong on trail. Finally we hit the top of the mountain and headed down to our planned camp spot. As I pulled up Marc and Caleb were already there with civilized! We hadn’t seen him in awhile. Apparently the burgers that the 49er saloon were serving had been fucking up the bowels of a couple pct hikers. Medium was cyuallt rare and the stomachs couldn’t handle that. He also told us a hilarious story. He was at the emergency care with another pct hiker and he was chilling in the hall with his hands in his pockets bouncing his leg. A woman comes up to him and states he needs to stop and remove his hands from his pocket as there are children around and it’s super inappropriate behavior. He’s super confused asking like huh! What am I doing. His friend comes back after this all goes down and states the staff thought he was masturbating the emergency room hallway out in the open. He then explained it to the staff and they apologized but truly a ridiculous accusation. We then decided to push on for 2 miles to a water cache and camp there as it looked more promising. We got there around 6:30 or maybe even later which mind you we are normally in camp by 3. So I’m rushing to do all the chores, cook dinner, set up things and organize. Time is not on my side and I hate that. I did make a fabulous dinner: tortilla, taco rice, pouch meat, cheese, and the salad I packed out. Best meal I’ve had. Hit all the important food groups. Today was overall a good day. I was a little sad throughout the day thinking about what happened yesterday but after mulling it over I am still confident that I have no regrets in the relationship. Everyone can act better in a relationship but overall, I think I tried my very best and I can’t be upset about that. Well I can but it’s more at peace with it becuase I know I tried everything. Caleb was super sweet and talked more about it with me today during the agua Dulce section and kinda reaffirmed that. Not to air out his dirty laundry but he’s had difficukt relationships in the past and was able to give insight and support through his experience. Not that it was a difficult relationship but it wasn’t perfect like most relationships. There’s always things that could’ve been improved or communicated more. Again, not to make it seem like I am totally okay but genuinely what can ya do? Anyway that’s my little insight about how I am doing emotionally. Physically I feel like a bad ass and I know I am a bad ass.