General Blogs and Trail Journals are very different beasts. This area is intended for my Blogs related to hiking and backpacking that ARE NOT daily Trail Journals. To read my Trail Journals, please navigate to a specific hike in the Hikes Menu at the top of this page or on the Hikes Page.
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I am attempting to walk continuously for 2,200 miles North Bound (NOBO) from Northern Georgia to North Central Maine along the Appalachian Trail (AT) over the course of roughly 170 days or five and a half months. This type of hike is called a thru-hike. […]
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After my wife died in 2021, I had to deal with that whole “mortality” thing and I did not like what I was seeing. I hadn’t done any exercise in 6 years and I got winded walking up one flight of stairs. I looked back on the past 30 years and realized that I had a lot of regrets. Add to all that the trauma of loosing my partner of 35 years and general depression around trying to figure out what the hell do I do with my life, and I decided that I needed to make some major changes. […]