Episode #148 - Appalachian Trail (Days 56 to 59)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Every night in the woods this time. After publishing the last show at Chestnut Knob Shelter I've made it the 55 miles to Woods Hole Hostel.
Characters are becoming family and we're caring about their lives as well as our own. Plenty of opportunities for copious eating and even the chance of a dip in a river.
We're nearly 30% of the way through and I continue to be surprised at my progress. Here's to the next 70%!!!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:06.4 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:22.4 | the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.9 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi, and thanks for coming back again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate |
| 0:39.9 | midline crisis. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm back on my own again this week and still racking up the miles. |
| 0:45.8 | I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with Clay and as I say he really was a great help to me |
| 0:50.6 | in my hike and I couldn't have had a better three days. It really was great with him. |
| 0:55.9 | But it's really nice to be back myself and making my own decisions. I had a few chats with |
| 1:01.8 | people this week who told me that really being a solo hiker is definitely the way forward for |
| 1:06.2 | them because you really have to think of nobody else but yourself and you do exactly what you want to do. |
| 1:12.1 | And to be fair to Clay, of course, that's what he allowed me to do by saying he was just going to follow along with my hike, |
| 1:18.5 | which was great and I thoroughly enjoyed having time with him. |
| 1:22.4 | This week, as I say, I passed 625 miles, which is now pushing me towards 30% of the way there. |
| 1:29.4 | I know that when we first started and the first few miles were, you know, 21, I think |
| 1:36.0 | the first few miles was 21 miles to Satchez, I seem to remember. |
| 1:39.9 | And that was 1% of the way there. |
| 1:42.7 | The fact that I'm coming towards 30% of the way there right now is quite exciting for me. |
| 1:48.4 | Oh, by the way, the rain has just started making a noise on the roof, |
| 1:53.0 | and you can probably hear that. |
| 1:54.4 | So I apologize. |
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