The 13 stages of enlightenment by nostril habitation: Surprise: Oy! A bug just flew up my right nostril! Amusement: Ha! Another bug just flew up right nostril. Ridicule: These are really dumb bugs. Curiosity: What is so special about my right nostril anyway? Fear: What is WRONG with my right nostril? Denial: There is no […]
[mapsmarker marker=”34″] “Why am I out here?” Ultimately, every hiker will be asking themselves this question… most likely after a particularly bad or painful day. The funny thing is, at that moment in time they may not even know the answer to that question. We all start the trail with our reasons; our own justifications […]
The Boar Song: Sniff sniff sniff. Food food food. What’s that! Our place!! Our food!! It’s one of those weird two legged things. Our food!! Our place!! Let’s scare it away! Snort with me brother! We will get it. Snort! Stomp! It keeps going. Coward. Food food food! The Bear Song: Food? Food! Oops. Not […]
[mapsmarker marker=”37″] Day: 39 Trail Miles: 199.1 Rain. Snow. Pain. Slow. That kind of sums up the last few days. I finally entered the “dreaded” Smoky Mountains. Why dreaded. Well first there is the whole bureaucracy involved with getting through the park. Can’t even escape The Man in the woods. Add to that every previous […]
[mapsmarker marker=”41″] Day: 23 Trail miles: 124.4 Part of the right of passage, or maybe a true induction into the Appalachian Trail Community, involves adopting a Trail Name. These names come about in many different ways though all will be influenced by the trail itself. Some choose their own name, some will have it chosen […]
[mapsmarker marker=”48″] Day 1 Weather: mostly sunny, windy Distance covered: 8.2 miles Campsite: Hawk Mountain shelter I am not sure how best to describe today. Interesting comes to mind, but that is kind of insufficient. We started the day with another visit to the local fire. A pretty good breakfast was has by all, […]
Day: 0 Location: Amicalola Falls Weather: sunny, 49F [mapsmarker marker=”49″] Maytag, his wife, his son, his son’s girlfriend and I arrived at the park around 5:30 pm. We immediately saw our first bear, and a rather drab view. Once we got our tents set up, we wandered down to check out the local scenery. Awed […]
Today is the last day of “civilization”. Maytag and I are making sure we have every thing we need, and and making sure our bags are packed well. It means absolutly NOTHING that bags have been packed and repacked several thousand times at this point. Though it does explain why a guy who doesn’t play […]
WE SHOULD NOT LET OUR FEARS HOLD US BACK FROM PURSUING OUR HOPES. -Fortune Cookie If the technology demons behave, this should be posting as a jetBlue plane begins a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, carrying a new-born adult male (who has a face smooth as a manly baby’s bottom to prove it.) Approximately 2 […]
There are quite a few descriptions that people might use if asked to describe me, but there are a few that will never make that list, even by accident. For instance I doubt anyone would even try to link me and the word “organized”. And I definitely fall short on such things as “detail oriented” […]
