Pretty Good at Walking

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You want to do what? She asked giggling.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yeah let's hike from Canada to Mexico. I answered.</span></p><p></p><p>She stopped giggling.</p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With the kids?</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welcome to the Pacific Crest Trail.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Strawbridge family found themselves shivering in a cold rain on a high pass in the North Cascade Mountains far from civilization and armed with little more than a vague notion of what it would take to walk 2650 miles up and down a wild and remote wilderness trail from Canada to Mexico.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Really? Can you even walk from Canada to Mexico? </em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vince and Monica set out with their four children ranging in age from 11 to 16 on the walk of a lifetime . Like any family adventure it would be filled with squabbles and fun. An experience compounded all the more by mosquitoes and bears` and blisters and plantar fasciitis and dirt and miscalculation of miles and time so much time.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Join the family as they traverse the United States from the top to the bottom and listen in as they sort out what it means to be a family in pursuit of a goal that seemed unattainable.</em></p>