Daily blog posts!

I have just made it out of the tricky part of the trail, where wifi and cell networks are hard to come by. Since accessing this blog should be easier from here on out, I have set the next few blog entries to post daily. Hopefully this will continue until my trail journey ends. Enjoy!

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