Episode #118 - Stephanie Lorenze (Sunshine)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
For many people, hiking the Appalachian Trail is the culmination of a lifelong dream. There may be issues that they don't want to face, they may be grieving the loss of somebody. For many, the trail is spiritual in nature. For Stephanie Lorenze, eating unlimited pizza was her initial motivation. Despite this unlikely catalyst, Stephanie grew to love the trail and everything on it.
She faced doubters at the outset, yet she pushed on, confidence growing in her own abilities to complete the journey.
She chose to define her own life and didn't permit the negativity to deflect her from the goal of standing on that brown sign at the top of Katahdin. In the end, she had the perfect answer to everybody who doubted that she would be able to get to the end.
If you'd like to contact Stephanie, her Facebook profile is https://www.facebook.com/steph.lorenze
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.2 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi and thanks for waiting so patiently for the original Mighty Blue and the Appalachian Troutes |
| 0:38.1 | return. I'm back from the Camino de Santiago with my hike hobble fully restored and I'm |
| 0:44.6 | currently in the UK as I recall this it is after 8 a.m. in Britain so that means that it's after 3am in the |
| 0:51.8 | US on the East Coast and I've missed my deadline for the first time. |
| 0:55.4 | Still, it should all be done in a couple of hours so I apologize for those of you who for some reason |
| 1:00.6 | hear it at 3 o'clock in the morning in the US. |
| 1:03.6 | We're back to our usual format this week with an interview with a hiker and the resumption of the book reading about the Camino at the end. |
| 1:10.6 | Because I'm up against |
| 1:11.7 | time, there won't be a middle section, though that will return next week. Additionally, the sound when I |
| 1:16.4 | speak isn't as good as normal, as I've discovered this morning that the MacBook Pro does not have a |
| 1:21.5 | USB port, so I can't record on a normal microphone that I carefully packed and brought with me. Oh well, I guess that's showbiz. |
| 1:29.8 | So you got me speaking into my computer mic. It isn't too bad and shouldn't worry you too much. |
| 1:34.4 | I'll be trying to get an adapter to resolve this in the next few days. |
| 1:38.6 | This week's guest is Stephanie Lawrence, otherwise known as Sunshine. I actually found Stephanie on Facebook in my normal |
| 1:46.1 | sort of cyber-stalking when I was just browsing a couple of the AT Facebook pages. She finished |
| 1:51.2 | the trail in late August, and this was originally recorded in early September, by the way, |
| 1:55.4 | and I saw her post and immediately wanted her on the show. As you'll hear, she has a remarkably |
| 2:00.4 | inspiring tale to tell |
| 2:01.7 | and she proved that you don't have to be a long distance hiker to become a long distance hiker, |
| 2:06.2 | if that makes any sense. Anybody can do this. You just have to commit yourself to it. In fact, |
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