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A journey like this has so many challenges and discomforts that you can’t avoid. Between my body being sore and tired, dealing with the elements, fighting with gear . . . it would be awesome if I could at least get good sleep.” “You’re thinking in the right direction, Misplaced. Yes, there are difficulties that you cannot avoid on this kind of journey. You simply have to endure them. In the Rangers, one of our mottos was to ‘adapt and overcome.’ We have to do a lot of that on the trail. If you can remove some unnecessary difficulties, you’ll have more stamina to overcome the ones you have to face. But to remove those challenges, you sometimes have to think beyond the usual expectations, to try stuff that is outside of the norm. When people think of camping, they think of tents. But if you ask most folks how they sleep in a tent, the answer is not usually very positive. So why not try something different?” “Yeah, it’s that old ‘But we’ve never done it that way,’ rut that folks get into. If you keep doing the same things, you keep getting the same results. If I keep sleeping in a tent because that’s what you do when you camp, then I’ll keep sleeping poorly and waking up sore. I really want to try and change that.” Misplaced liked the way his new friend was willing to challenge established norms.
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