It has become painfully obvious that I am carrying too much weight and am too slow up the hills<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the climbs here are almost always long, much longer than we are used to in Belgium, it has been slowing our progress somewhat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luckily Rich also wanted to dump some stuff he offered to send our stuff together to his house. He can then either send it to our final hotel in Yorktown or send it home for me \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I managed to slim down about 4kg of unnecessary clothing \ud83d\udc4d\ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was yesterday morning and, to be honest, I haven\u2019t noticed a difference but I\u2019m sure there is one <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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