Episode #14 - Jessica Mills (Dixie)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The prolific Dixie has 15,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel following her 2015 thru-hike. Her engaging manner has drawn people in and that shines through in this episode. She is also a successful author, publishing her book, Take a Thru-Hike: Dixie's How-To Guide for Hiking the Appalachian Trail (picture below). She shares a few of her stories in this episode, as well as talking about her videos, which she posts on a weekly basis. For anybody considering hiking the AT in 2017, watch Dixie's videos covering all the issues you and your wife/mother/husband/father will be worrying about as you set out on your journey of a lifetime. Apart from her YouTube channel and her book, there are many other ways to connect with Dixie. Her blog can be found at http://www.homemadewanderlust.com/, while she is also on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest. Just click any of the links and they will take you to Dixie's sites. For some reason, this only works if you're on my podcast website. Please make sure that you come and listen to the podcast every Thursday. You'll be able to find all the episodes at my website, mightyblueontheat.com, as well as on iTunes and Stitcher. While you check out Dixie's book, you may wish to head over to my story from my 2014 thru-hike. The books are My Appalachian Trial I: Three Weddings and a Sabbatical and My Appalachian Trial II: Creaking Geezer, Hidden Flagon. If you like my podcast you'll love the books. 
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| 0:00.0 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, join Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi and welcome back to our last show before Christmas. We're on to number 14. |
| 0:32.9 | I've been thinking whether or not to do a show between Christmas and the new year, |
| 0:36.8 | but as our downloads |
| 0:37.8 | seem to be increasing quite fast, I've decided to. Let's face it, it's not as if I'm doing |
| 0:42.3 | the shows in real time, and we'll have to interrupt my Christmas gorging in order to post a show. |
| 0:48.2 | One of the wonderful things about the technical side of podcasting is the convenience of everything. |
| 0:52.8 | While I don't want to load up shows about a month |
| 0:55.1 | in advance, I can at least plan them so that I can relax at certain times of the year. |
| 0:59.7 | So, the morning of Thursday, December 29th, you'll find episode 15 throbbing away on your smartphone. |
| 1:08.3 | As I mentioned last week, today is an early Christmas gift to some of you. |
| 1:13.1 | I started to get a few comments in emails, oh, about six episodes back. |
| 1:18.0 | These were from middle-aged men who seemed besotted by the thoroughly engaging Jessica Mills, |
| 1:23.5 | or Dixie. |
| 1:25.2 | Dixie hiked the AT in 2015, keeping an excellent vlog, if that's how you say it, or video blog, that she uploaded to YouTube. |
| 1:34.7 | She attracted great support with literally thousands of people hiking vicariously with her. |
| 1:40.7 | Her infectious nature, which you'll hear in a moment entranced all of them she posted regular updates |
| 1:46.4 | and with such a ready-made following continued to update on a weekly basis after she finished at |
| 1:51.4 | catardin these extra videos covered all sorts of different aspects of hike in the trail from bad |
| 1:57.9 | hygiene to what not to do when you encounter a bear. You've got to hear about that. |
| 2:04.6 | It made me laugh. Dixie doesn't seem to take herself too seriously, which almost certainly |
| 2:09.8 | put another checkmark in a positives column. I've got a great interview with her today, and I hope that |
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