Changes in life bring new stresses that test our character. How can we let responsibility and ambition blind us from the facets of life that we have already identified as too important to preclude? What forces you stop and realize that you need to re-prioritize your life? In this episode, Stanley ‘DNA’ Mordensky tells his tale of his move to New Zealand to pursue doctoral research in engineering geology and how he deviated from the values he had carried with him from his long-distance hiking experiences.

We are grateful to Matt ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Smith, our friend from thruhiking, who provided ‘ABQ Train’, ‘Distant Dawn’, and ‘Thankfull Lull’. The closing piece, ‘Numbers‘, was provided by The Dice under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.