A-Hiking We Will Go

Weekend before Easter I got roped into hiking with school. I say ‘roped’; I mentioned at the start of the year to the coordinator that I was interested in doing some hiking this year, and then the female teacher for this hike had to pull out, and so I got about 10 days’ warning.

Wow am I unfit.

I mean, my lungs survived; I was never really puffed or out of breath, except for the half hour after breakfast when my stomach was busy taking up all my abdominal/chest space with its protest over the...