You are listening to the ultimate midlife crisis,

joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi, I'm having to coming back again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail of the ultimate mid-life crisis.

This week, I guess the theme is that I'm feeling loved or cherished.

Something happened, so unexpected, so out of the blue.

I don't know some of you probably already know what it was but it was so humbling

to receive this love from people that um i don't think i'm ever going to get over it to be with you

it was um it was at the start of the our trip into the shunnedahs and um I could not have been more surprised nor could my friends

when they saw what was happening but we'll come back to that when we get to it but first of all

I'd like to thank our sponsors soya when I hit the trail in 2014 I soon discovered that I come

with the wrong water filter.

Everybody else had a Sawyer squeeze.

Eventually, I bought a squeeze and I loved it.

I'm going to again this year and top of my list of things to buy was the new micro-squeeze filter by Sawyer.

Like all Sawyer stuff, it just works.

You can filter up to 100,000 gallons and their full-size squeeze filter comes with a

lifetime warranty. Last year, believe it or not, more than 4 million people got clean water

through a soil water filter. But if you think that Sawyer is just about water filters, you could not

be more wrong. Nope, they supply everything to protect you, both in the backcountry and the backyard.

Protect your gear and clothes, as I did with their pomethrin fabric treatment,

which is 100% odourless after drying.

With all the ticks and bugs around, this is an absolute must.

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