To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea-"cruising," it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or […]
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I gave my notice at work today. Come March 6 I will be officially unemployed, so it'll be either find another job or go hiking. I think I'll go hiking!— ~~~~~Allen F. Freemanallen@allenf.com www.allenf.comallenf.blogspot.com
Tom asked: “What do you think the biggest challenges will be? Whatwill tempt you the most to leave before you’re done?” Of course I can offer only suppositions until I am actually out thereand doing it, but there are two things that I think will present mybiggest temptations to quit. The first will simply be […]
Not much to write today, other than to note that there are just six weeks left between today and the day I climb the Approach Trail to the summit of Springer Mountain! —~~~~~Allen F. Freemanallen@allenf.comwww.allenf.comallenf.blogspot.com
Last weekend I said that I wanted to pull all of my cold weather gear together and try to pack it in my SMD Starlite too see how well it all fit. I never got around to doing it last weekend, but I did it yesterday. Well, working in the comfort and relative warmth of […]
Ten weeks, seventy days, from now — well, actually just about 70 days and 57 minutes — my flight to Atlanta is scheduled to take off. Ten weeks. Boy, time seems to be flying. That means in just about 9 1/2 weeks I will be leaving my job, which means in about 7 1/2 weeks […]
As my Christmas / Hanukkah gift this year, Jodi bought the ticket formy flight from Boston to Atlanta on March 17. With that nailed down Ithen made my reservation for a shuttle and a night's lodging at theHiker Hostel in Dahlonega. (www.hikerhostel.com). If all goes according to plan, this is how I will get to […]
Tom asked if I am doing any training for my thru-hike. I supposetraining would fall into two categories. One would be training in theskills of backpacking. Well, I've been backpacking since my Boy Scoutdays, so I haven't been doing anything special int hat regard. I didstart, a couple of years ago, revamping a lot of […]
Ninety days from today, on March 18, 2009, I should be standing underthe arch in Amicalola Falls State Park in Georgia, starting my hike upthe 8.8 mile long Approach Trail to the summit of Springer Mountainand the southern terminus of the Appalachian trail. I don't think this is any kind of surprise to the few […]
This weekend I went hiking. Until I got home last night I didn’t know that WAMU had failed. I didn’t know that Paul Newman had died. I hadn’t watched the debate. I didn’t even care. And guess what? The world didn’t end. I spent Friday afternoon walking through the woods in the rain. It was beautiful. The world was […]
