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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 for coming back again to Mighty Blue on the Apple Action Trail and our second episode of the day.

These shorter shows are logistically much more manageable for me.

Frankly, trying to keep my notes on all these different days.

It's given me a problem and I know that I need to be more

what's the word for it more diligent in making sure that I take proper notes at the end of each day

because not that it gets boring at all in my mind but it you know the type of hiking you have

sometimes can roll from one day to another

and had a lot of problems sorting out a few of those days in the previous show.

So I thought breaking it down into two shows might make it more simple for me.

And going forward, I really am going to try every night to make the notes that I need to make

every night once I've completed my hike for the day but we'll just have to

see how that works out but before we get on I just want to talk about the Shenandoah National Park as a

whole because you know we're out of it now when we left when we got to front row we left shenndah

National Park and I didn't say anything about it really. In 2014 I wasn't

all that impressed with Shandau. I'm not sure whether it's because the weather this time is better

or that I've got company this time because most of my journey through it in 2014 was by myself.

But it's not only that, you know, it's the visit from my 2014 team and and other listeners that

has so endeared me to the park this time i suspect actually it's a combination of all these

things and the park is impeccably maintained as it was last time the way sides and the

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