You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network where we talk the walk with shows by hikers

about hikers for everybody. 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 Appal Action Trail, the ultimate

midlife crisis where I share my story of my journey on the Appal Action Trail in 2019,

kind of comparing it with how I did it in 2014 and hopefully you're enjoying the journey.

Now if you recall Trigger and are separated last week, albeit temporarily,

so the next few days I was on my lonesome and hiking at my own pace.

As you're going to hear, we called up after about three or four days and our partnership resumed.

Vermont continued to improve and in the end I love the state for reasons I'm going to mention in

these updates all the time however New Hampshire and Maine were waiting for us and we

approached this epic finish with that fact in our minds let's hear how we got there

starting with day number 137 day number 137 day number 137. VT Route 140, which is mile 1679, to Governor Clement Shelter,

mile 6192.4.4 mile day. So, I had no trigger with me. It's funny actually my my mindset was different

and I was kind of looking forward to it. I was slightly nervous I guess in some ways. I was by myself

for the first time for a long time but you know you've got to make the best you can on this trip

our new trigger was going to be enjoying for some time with his family and I knew I'd be meeting him again on Sunday.

So this was three days where I had to work out the day for myself and make sure I could get to make my goals. I knew I wasn't going to go too far today so I knew how far I needed to go to get to the right place to meet Trigger on Sunday.

So this was just a 13 mile day and one of our guests from a previous show, Judy Myxel, had contacted me to say she was doing some of Vermont as well with some friends,

Rich and Mary Ellen, and wonder whether I'd like to meet them for breakfast.

So I said, yeah, sure, I love to.

Very, very kindly.

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