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Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi, and thanks so much for coming back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,

the ultimate midlife crisis.

While I remember, because I don't write everything down, I'm afraid,

if you have any questions for me about how it's going for me on the trail

or what you think I'm, you know, what you think I'm getting up to

and you think I'm doing things wrong, let me know.

And send them to Bruce

Mattson, R-TK Challenge at gmail.com. And Bruce is going to interview me when I get, I guess,

halfway through Virginia. And he will give a copy of his new book, Platinum Plays in the Appalachian

Trail, to the best, the questions he likes the best, one every week.

So why not do that?

It's a great book and I'm using it actually for my journey this time.

And I'd like to thank also, of course, our advertisers.

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