Book Synopsis
It will come as no surprise that I did not wake up one morning and start hiking the Appalachian Trail. The decision was a bit more deliberative and this book captures most of the details of how I made the decision and then how I planned the adventure. The bulk of the book is the collection of blogs I wrote each afternoon or evening – almost without fail. The blog format was the result of a friend’s interest in following my trek. Had he not expressed that interest, this book, if written, would have been at best a collection of notes occasionally entered on an iPhone – or worse, on a pad of paper. Without writing the blog, the thru-hike would have had a different measure of personal satisfaction.