End of August

I'm mostly recovered from my 10 mile hike on Aug 14th. My 2nd left toe is still horribly bruised but no longer hurts. I bought new sneakers and new light hikers in a larger size to prevent damaging the feet again. My heel tendons still don't want to stretch properly and cause me some pain when I get up from sitting a few minutes. I have to face up to the fact that a hike on the N-P trail is not going to happen this year. Randy and I head off to Arizona next week. I will do a little hiking there but at least at this point, we have no plans to do any major hiking.