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Hello from ☀️ sunny Austin Texas at 10:09 am on Tuesday September 12th. It is currently 82° F (28° C).

As of yesterday I have begun to practice hiking. I do not know if this will stick, but I have a nice new backpack, a cheap activity tracker watch and a love for tracking progress in spreadsheets.

First of all, please ignore my scruffy beard and hair. I am leaving for a vacation soon and am putting off a trim until just before I depart.

With that out of the way, I am starting by taking a long walk around the block with weight added to my backpack. I’m not sure of the distance, but I estimate 1.3 miles.

This first day I loaded this 7 lb jug of water into the backpack, but this eas not enough weight. Tomorrow (today) I shall add more.

As of this morning I have sent a postcard to Hong Kong. Oops. I need to record this in my map tracker, still. I forgot to do this as I am running behind schedule today.

I also received a lovely card from Czechia today as well. Delightful card that discusses an adventure in Krnov.

As for today’s walk, I added a much larger jug of water that, with the backpack, weighs about 24 lbs (about 11kg).

I did break a sweat today and noticed the places where the backpack is rubbing on me. This would be an issue if I were to attempt a long hike.

I had to do that thing where you weigh yourself and then weigh yourself again, but holding the item.

See? Sweaty and still scruffy.

I am enjoying the audibook that I am listening to while on this trek as well.

Eli says “Hi.”