Well…..Mother Nature has it in for me I guess. 🤪. Seems wherever I go, I bring some kind of record cold, heat, rain or even a bomb cyclone!! Went to California last year and within an hour of getting there, a bomb cyclone hit and we were without power for 3 days. Went to south Florida last month to leave the cold in GA and it snowed in south Florida and we had freezing temps for several days. Came to AZ before summer to hike before the heat and brought a severe heat wave in March. Guess all I can do is laugh about it, but what the heck??? 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Anyway, I can’t really complain because every time I’ve returned home safe and sound and still had an enjoyable time even though the weather didn’t cooperate. This time will be no different, I hope.

Our original plan has changed a bit because of the heat wave and water situation. We’ve decided to stay in Patagonia during the worst of it and hopefully hit trail again on Sunday morning before sun up and hike before the sun gets too hot. Maybe from 4 am to 8:30ish and then literally prop under our sun umbrellas all day until the sun starts to set and then hike another 3 hours or so into the night. We’ll see how that works. This will cut into our projected daily mileage obviously, so we’ll see how it goes. We’re suppose to get from Patagonia to Colossal Cave in 4.5 days but…..

Patagonia is a sweet little trail town. People are super friendly here. There isn’t really much to do, but it has everything we need.

We’ve moved from the hostel campground to a little hotel downtown that has some AC. 🪭❄️ The campground was super nice, but even in the shade it provided you couldn’t stay cool.

Since I don’t have any trail news or pics to share, here’s a very short video of a few pics of the little town of Patagonia. These pics are pretty much the whole town. 😊

Btw, while here I’ll have phone service so feel free to text or call. (I have pretty much nothing else to do.) 🫩🥱