Episode #129 - Lea Ann Hogan and Lotta Anvret
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Another two members of the Mighty Blue Class of 2019 this week. Lea Ann Hogan and Lotta Anvret have given to others all their lives. They are a nurse and a special needs teacher respectively and feel the time is right to do something for themselves.
Lea Ann (on the right below) has a calm determination to succeed and Lotta (on the left below) is flying in from Sweden in the hope that she can finish within her six-month visa. She is hoping that she meets a friendly Homeland Security agent at the gate!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, I'm about a month away from my 80 through hike and I hear that a polar vortex is hitting somewhere in America. |
| 0:40.8 | That is something that I, and I'm sure tons of other hikers already out there, could have done with that. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm recording this on Tuesday and flying back to the US on Wednesday to start my preparation in earnest for the hike. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to episode number 129 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:55.5 | the ultimate midlife crisis. Just when you thought that we were done with the class of 2019, |
| 1:00.9 | three more delightful women hikers have popped out of the woodwork, so I'm really pleased to |
| 1:05.3 | have the opportunity this week to introduce two of them. Both are in their fabulous 50s and |
| 1:10.2 | both are in what I'd call some of the |
| 1:11.8 | greatest professions, nursing and special needs teaching. Who better to hear for inspiration? |
| 1:18.1 | Then next week I'll be bringing on the last of the Mighty Blue Class of 2019 and hope that we |
| 1:22.7 | all have fun following along with them and me as we take on the AT this year. First up we're going to have |
| 1:28.7 | Leanne Hogan, our nurse, then sharing top billing Lotta Anbrit, our teacher from Sweden, |
| 1:35.0 | will tell us how she's planning to be there at Springer in a few weeks time. I know that I've |
| 1:39.6 | mentioned this before, but it is worth repeating that the crop of women I met in 2014 was so strong, |
| 1:44.9 | so assured and so confident that I gained a whole new appreciation for our sisters that I'd |
| 1:50.1 | honestly previously missed or misunderstood. I think that we're truly blessed to live in such an age. |
| 1:56.2 | These two are part of the same sisterhood. I won't be updating you on my pathetic progress this week, as yet again, I haven't made much. |
| 2:05.9 | That will change when I'm back in the US. |
| 2:08.1 | You'll have to have fun to be ready in a few weeks' time. |
| 2:10.8 | Lastly, in the next couple of weeks, we're going to be putting out the last remaining chapters |
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