When I tell people I am planning to hike the Appalachian Trail, I generally get one of three replies: You’re crazy. Cool! That’s cool, but you’re crazy! Each of these invariably followed by a “Why?” The answer to that why is not always the same, nor alway easy to produce. However, the simplest answer is […]
Climbing up hills can be hard work … especially when those hills are figurative. I have fallen into a time in which I seem to be making little progress in ANYTHING I do, which is very disheartening. I started of this year with all sorts of fresh ideas, that were exciting and seemed to have […]
Here I am again. I have been suffering from a severe bit o’ “Why bother getting out of bed?” It is not so much depression but a basic lack of progress in … well just about anything … lately. It is hard to motivate when no matter what level of energy we put in nothing […]
I am not a goal driven person. I MIGHT be a destination driven person, but even when I have a specific destination I am aiming for, to me the journey to it is really what is important. So when Mark asked me to join him in this epic journey … there was absolutely no chance […]
I was gabbing with Mark the other day and we mentioned getting more people following us and throwing their hard-earned cash at charities in our name. Mark suggested that more nudity was needed on the blog to get our numbers up. It made sense to me, so I decided to offer this picture to help […]
When I was younger, they used to call me The Test Dummy. While this kind of applied to my whole life, it specifically referred to my outdoor activities. For about 18 years, I went on yearly 10 to twelve day canoe outings. The first few were basically calm flat water … but then we got […]
I seem to have misplaced most of last week. This is not all that uncommon for me. I often seem to misplace various time periods. I am not quite sure what happened to the 80’s for instance. I only mention misplacing last week because it seems to me I just wrote one of these posts. […]
Now that I am getting more back to my normal life … i.e. not having a clue what day it is or where I am, I feel like I am more prepared for the hike. It seems only appropriate that I do my monday weigh in and update on a random day that may or […]
Somehow it became monday again. I am not sure how that keeps happening when I least expect it. Of course for this jobless couch potato Monday is just like any other day EXCEPT … … today is weigh in day. The dread of my approach to the scale this morning would probably make a very long blog […]
Idiot’s Appalachian Trail Diary Day 17 “Bitten by a rabid field mouse that ate it’s way into my tent. So hungry myself that I caught him and ate him” Day 42 “Accidentally Urinated on a slumbering Rattlesnake……. IT was not pleased” Day 76 “Squatted for a large poop in front of a pack of startled […]
