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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 welcome back again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis.

While I remember it, by the way, Ryan puts these shows out so steadfastly and so regularly for us, is off to the UK.

I think it's tomorrow, or maybe it's the day after.

So either Friday or Saturday to work in the UK for the State College of Florida.

I wish him best, all the best on the way there.

And when he comes back, he's going to be hiking the Applacian Trail himself.

And we are considering making a program of him hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Ryan takes a hike.

So listen about more for that.

This has been quite a week again.

And we all getting closer and closer to Katahdin.

These are dramatic times where you start putting into focus your thoughts about finishing

and the various bits and bobs that are associated with finishing.

You have to get the logistics right because we're coming up to the 100 mile wilderness and how much food you carry how much you get dropped so it's kind of exciting and I can tell you now we are actually I'm doing this from monson Monson is the beginning of the 100 mile worldness and it may very well be that I don't get another show out to you either to adjust after I've finished

climate guitar and I may get one out beforehand but what I hope to do is to try to record

each night in camp what happened that day but you know where do I get any service at all I think

is unlikely but we'll see but I'll try to put a show out as soon as I

possibly can, and Ryan will be doing it from London in this particular case. But let's first

hear what happened on day number 168. Day number 168, East Flagstaff Road, mile 2020.4, northbound this time, to Pierce Pond

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