Post-Hike: Thank-You Cards

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As you might already know, I have recently finished walking the outline of Texas. It took me the better part of a month to snap out of a zombie-like state, and now that I have, there is a pile of things waiting to be done. Who knew that walking entailed so much extra work? Not me, I guess, and the biggest chore that stands before me and tranquility is an enormous stack of thank-you cards.

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I don't remember much about the gifts I received for my high school graduation, but I do vividly recall the stack of thank-yous I had to write. My mom pestered me every day, but I could only do a few at a time. I really put my heart into them. Years later, my mom admitted that several people had come up to her later mentioning those thank-yous.

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Before me lies the very same task, only this time without the nagging. And instead of twenty-some-odd letters to write, I have closer to seventy. In this age of constant emails, my hands hardly know what to think with all this actual writing.

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I took the time to start a Snapfish account, so I could make my own thank-you cards (shown above). It was so easy. Within a week, I had specialized cards to use. (I don't take credit for the idea. I received a thank-you from Annie several months back when I was hiking for contributing to her PEARS fundraiser. She had made her cards from Snapfish.)

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Tonight, I wrote nine cards. Tomorrow, I'm hoping for nine more at a minimum. I've written perhaps thirty so far and have barely covered the Gulf Coast region and East Texas. I met so many people on my hike who helped me out; I hope to touch bases with most of them. It's the least I can do.