The one solid lesson I have learned this past year is that nothing ever goes as planned. A few months ago I bought a plane ticket to Switzerland with the goal of hiking the entire Mont Blanc Circuit. It was my reward for enduring my hip surgery/recovery thing and acted as some serious motivation to getting solid and strong. And well three weeks ago my feet hurt with the first few steps in the morning and now yesterday I couldn't even hike 2 miles. I would call the heel pain quite crippling and it isn't getting any better so time to start thinking about what the heck I am going to do in 3 weeks. As far as I see it I have 3 options.
1) Suck it up. Maybe I am just a wuss. Do trip as planned. Wash down lots of ibuprofen with red wine. 2) Beach vacation. Europe is a big place. There has to be something besides trekking Mont Blanc that I would enjoy.
3) Eat my plane ticket. Honestly I am not really a spend all day in museums kind of person so not going is a real option for me right now. I am using all my vacation time to do this trip so if I can't do the kind of trip I want to do, why go? I think I might be happier spending a long weekend riding my bike in the Sawtooths and soaking in the Salmon River than sitting on my butt in Europe. Hopefully the feets get magically better in the next week and I won't have to make any decision at all :)
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