Pre-Hike
Edited 10Apr2025 – unable to open images previously loaded in 2008 and do not remember what they were? Appreciations with tkx to Nancy for all the pix in this posting.
I first read about the Appalachian Trail (AT as known by hikers) when I lived in Florida and wondered then if I could ever hike it. The thought faded, as the children were younger and my primary priority at that time. When my first granddaughter was born in 2002, the idea of hiking came back into mind and I realized it was time to challenge the mental and physical discipline.
Why would anyone want to hike 2,175mi/3,500km? Reasons usually reflect on the external words of someone else. Perhaps it was the need to touch ground with Mother Nature after surviving over half a century in the concrete jungle. Personal challenge, reflection, recharge, solitude, etc may have been some of the reasons.
Before giving up the job and kissing everyone goodbye, I questioned myself as to how to explain that all I will do for 127 days is get up to walk, eat and sleep? Had no explanation except that I just wanted to do it, as the day would come when the mind is willingly but not the body.
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Edited Sat11Sep2021: thank you Nancy Bowman for this little album with pix&captions by her – should have included these pix here, but somehow they seemed to have slip my mind and now finally after 16yrs am glad that I found them. Better late than never!
This tent was one of the few things that stayed with me thru’ out this hike
Appreciations to Dee Hall for getting my hair cropped and did not need another one until I completed the thru’hike, ie 4months later.
