A turn or two I'll walk, to still my beating mind

PROSPERO

You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, retire into my cell
And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

(The Tempest, Act IV, scene 1) 

Yes, my friends, Erin and Michael have left the great state of California and entered...

Ashland, Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival!

Instead of going to see a play, however, they are scarfing down cheeseburgers with their trail friends, the Ashland boys. Psh.

But the good news is that their swollen feet, while still painful, are less swollen; their bee-stung bodies, while still in pain, are no longer bee-stung; and that bowel trouble that I alluded to in my last post, while always a painful lingering memory, has not returned. 

FURTHERMORE, Erin has acquired a trailname from their trail buddies Tribu and Muir Bird, two PCT hikers who like to travel up to the 30 miles a day (that's a lot). From here on out, I will refer to my sister as Jorge.

Apparently there is a perfectly logical reason for this: namely, ultramarathon runner Jorge Pacheco. The dude runs 100 miles for fun and likes to train on the PCT (also, presumably, for fun). Turns out that our dear Erin/Jorge occasionally turns into an ultramarathoner of sorts, speeding along the trail like she's out to win a race. Sometimes, though, she slows down. Way, waaaaay down. Then her trailfriends call her George.

So, congratulations, Jorge and Longlegs, on reaching Oregon! Love you guys so much.