The Traveler's Arizona Trail: Section 1 – The Southern Start (Tucson to Oracle)
Life had taken an unexpected turn, leading me to Tucson with a U-Haul full of my belongings, which soon found their way into a storage unit. The reality of homelessness, even with a roof over my head in a rented space, quickly set in. It wasn't long before I realized: there had to be a better way to live, to breathe, to simply be. That's when the Arizona Trail, a familiar distant thought, became my immediate answer. Better to be out on the trail, camping under the vast Arizona sky, than confined by the invisible walls of homelessness in a city.
And so, my true journey began not from a desire for adventure, but from a necessity, a profound choice for freedom and self-reliance. I hit the trail from Tucson, not heading south to the border, but turning my back on the city and setting my sights north, towards the distant cool pines of Flagstaff. The desert stretched before me, a daunting but welcoming expanse, ready to offer a different kind of home.
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