How I did it: I was doing this science exchange thing (SCA in national parks) when I was a teen-ager where in part of it we were making new campsites and hiding the old ones so the land could heal from us abusive humans.  We were moving boulders and hauling sandbags... I'd been a bit of a wannabe-tomboy fairy princess my whole life, and this was manual labor... I'd never experienced anything like it.  Never.  At the end of each day I was exhausted in a way that I'd never known was possible, and NOTHING felt as good as crawling into that sleeping bag and just resting.  I love that feeling!  I'd been what, athletic? my whole life (I'd been a dancer starting at age 3, I was a competitive swimmer, and my family was just very *active*), but I had/have never experienced true physical exhaustion before or since.  We were basically out in the wilderness for a month, and while it was amazing, you would not BELIEVE how welcome a hot bath and being able to read all night in bed were at the end! Read how I did it… 17 months ago

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