Episode #296 - Lisa P Parker (Tex)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week's guest is another of those intrepid female hikers who follow their passion and find out what the world has in store for them. Lisa Parker has had a varied career, from teaching to the New York fashion scene before finally finding her own passion.
She had started the Appalachian Trail in 2020 but got off the trail after more than 300 miles because of the Covid outbreak. She wanted the "full experience" and went back to Amicolola Falls to start from the beginning in 2021.
If you'd like to follow more of Lisa's adventures, check out her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcV21r0lsuRsBdSW_H5zHNg/featured
We also introduce you to our newest podcaster on the network. Courtney Miller chats with Steve about her new show, which is coming to the network. It is Hiking Unfiltered and episodes will be available every first and third Monday of the month. Check out Courtney's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HikingUnfiltered and make sure you check out her show when you're on our website, https://www.hikingradionetwork.com/
Finally today, Winton Porter hosts a big, boozy party at Mountain Crossings. Things go pretty much as you might expect!!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | 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. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey guys, it's good to be back with you all once more. |
| 0:37.3 | You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate middle-life crisis. |
| 0:41.3 | And I am Mighty Blue or Steve Adams. |
| 0:44.2 | You may have noticed recently that we've had a bunch of awesome women on the show. |
| 0:49.2 | That's deliberate because I noticed that for the most part of this year, I've had mainly men guests. |
| 0:54.9 | So I reached out to a bunch of women a few months ago, and nearly all of them agreed to share |
| 0:59.3 | their story. And today is not an exception. We have another of these amazing women who found |
| 1:04.2 | their way to the trail. Our guest today is Lisa Parker, known by her very appropriate trail name |
| 1:10.0 | of Tex. She's at quite the varied career, |
| 1:12.9 | I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing her story. Also today we have Courtney Miller, our new addition to the |
| 1:18.3 | Hiking Radio Network family. Courtney is presenting her new show, Hiking Unfiltered, and when this podcast |
| 1:25.0 | goes out on Thursday, November 11th, Courtney's pilot episode will be |
| 1:29.0 | available on the Hiking Radio Network site. With a bit of luck, Apple Podcasts will have got their act |
| 1:35.3 | together and the second episode will be available all over the networks this coming Monday, |
| 1:40.5 | November the 15th. From then on, Courtney's release dates will be the first and third Mondays |
| 1:45.6 | of each month. Courtney is going to be on after Tex. Finally today, Winton Porter describes |
| 1:51.8 | a very boozy affair of mountain crossings, where a good time is had by all. So let's get to it. |
| 2:00.4 | Here's Lisa Parker, better known as texts. |
| 2:02.4 | We weren't able to get Lisa's Wi-Fi to fire up properly, |
| 2:05.2 | so we went with a phone call. |
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