Wander Women: How You Can Find Healing Strength in Mind and Body One Step at a Time: Ep 8 L4

• Looking to reinvent your life? Kristy and Annette tell L4 how they quit their jobs, sold their homes and hit the trails to live their dream life over 50.
• You can do more than you think you can. They tell our L4 community their approach to building up fitness and endurance until they were able to hike 8 to 12 hours a day. Doubts? Sometimes but they get up everyday and push their limits, finding strength inside themselves.
• Feeling frantic and overwhelmed? Nature on the trail provides healing and meditative stillness for Kristy and Annette. Listen to their advice on bringing calm into your life.
• The kindness of the trail community embraces Kristy and Annette, and they share stories of trail angels and saddlebags of food shared similar to your L4 community where you find similar kindness and support!
• Listen to trail stories from the Appalachian, Pacific Crest trail and more from Kristy and Annette who’ve logged over 8,5 00 miles of American trails.
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About: Kristy Burns: I am 58 years old. Grew up in Colorado but attended college at the University of South Florida on a basketball Scholarship. I have a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling with an LPC license. I had a private practice in Colorado Springs providing therapeutic services to children and families. My specialty area was in early childhood trauma. I retired in 2015 and sold everything to full-time RV travel. The goal is to explore the globe, experience new things, meet new people and expand the confines of my life.

Annette Demel: Spend as much time as possible doing what you love. It’s a pretty basic retirement plan, but so far, it’s been a blast. In 2015, after retiring from my career in public education working as a teacher and school librarian, I left my traditional life behind and started a life of travel and adventure. Whether I’m rolling around the U.S. in an RV, exploring our national public lands by bike, or backpacking our national scenic trails and living in a tent for six month at a time, spending time in nature brings me joy.

Annette and I have visited 48 National Parks and many National Monuments, National Scenic Rivers, and National Seashores. We have thru hiked the Colorado Trail, Oregon Coast Trail,  Superior Trail, Lone Star Trail. We also completed the triple crown of long distance hiking: the Appalachian Trail,  Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. The triple crown had us walking through 22 states and wearing out about 16 pairs of shoes each. Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/RVsters/