What????
One of my first backpacking trips - with Pete the hiking dog!
Hike an entire 2,200 mile trail in five months, carrying a relatively heavy pack, with only two changes of clothes????? It's been a dream of mine for a VERY long time.... and I'm going to try!
I've hiked sections of the AT in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. From the first time I learned that the pieces of trail I'd been hiking were part of a hiking "interstate" that extended from Maine to Georgia, I've been fascinated with attempting the entire thing. The simple fact that it exists begs for it to be walked. I've never felt more peaceful, alive and full of gratefulness for this world than the times I've spent multiple days in the wilderness. I want to delve as deeply as possible into that feeling.
A lot of people upon hearing my plans to take a break from my career, sell off lots of my possessions, and spend five months in the woods have said, unprompted, "I hope you find what you're looking for." The truth is, I don't know that I'm "looking for" anything. What I do know is that if five months of walking in the wilderness every day and sleeping under the stars every night doesn't open up a new door inside myself, I've not done it right.
I've hiked sections of the AT in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. From the first time I learned that the pieces of trail I'd been hiking were part of a hiking "interstate" that extended from Maine to Georgia, I've been fascinated with attempting the entire thing. The simple fact that it exists begs for it to be walked. I've never felt more peaceful, alive and full of gratefulness for this world than the times I've spent multiple days in the wilderness. I want to delve as deeply as possible into that feeling.
A lot of people upon hearing my plans to take a break from my career, sell off lots of my possessions, and spend five months in the woods have said, unprompted, "I hope you find what you're looking for." The truth is, I don't know that I'm "looking for" anything. What I do know is that if five months of walking in the wilderness every day and sleeping under the stars every night doesn't open up a new door inside myself, I've not done it right.