You have to fight your way through the thicket.
Overgrown branches bar your way.
But if you stop, you can only go back.
Or you must find a side trail.
Explorers never know where the path will lead.
They keep trying to find a route.
A route to the top or to their goal.
Lewis and Clark followed the river.
Hoping it would take them to the Pacific.
Mired down many times, they didn't give up.
Finally they reached the sea.
How do you keep going when each step is a struggle?
Photo by Kyle Cleveland