“After what was happening to me and Jim, I needed to build my confidence back after all I’d gone through,” she said. “Also, when you face mortality and other difficulties in life, you realize, if not now, when? Am I going to just be the person reading about other people’s adventures? This was my Everest.”

He is worried I will leave him, but I am terrified that he is leaving me.

» Čutila sem, da mi bo fizični napor pomagal pozabiti na bolečine in psihično trpljenje zadnjih let. Potrebovala sem tudi bolečino, nad katero bi imela nadzor. «

An article published in Slovenian paper Nedeljski Dnevnik. If you can read Slovene language - have fun!

I felt acid rising in my throat and wanted to jump off the ferry before it was even docked. The turbine engine revved and lurched into reverse and the captain expertly aligned the stern of the ferry with the shore. It all begins with an idea.

“The first weeks, waiting for the diagnosis, was the worst part,” she says. “Then you go through the treatments. You have to get through it and survive. You have to be strong for the people around you.”

My front wheel just caught a sharp rock, causing me to slide off the edge of the trail. I managed to avoid two deadly boulders when a third flipped my bike into the air, sending out a plume of camping gear, water bottles, and food.

My frustrated scream drowned the morning

birdsong: “I am so thirsty!” A guttural

cry escaped into the void as I rechecked

my water supply and my maps yet again,

perhaps hoping that by doing so, the

distance would somehow shrink.