Episode #305 - Garrett Tandy (Jive Turkey)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Garrett Tandy is this week's guest, a 2021 flip flopper who finished at Delaware Water Gap in October 2021. He has fresh memories that he shares in a wide-ranging conversation.

Garrett is in his late 30s, which is a rarer demographic on the trail, and he did what he needed to do to hike the AT, making necessary changes and arrangements to fulfill his dream.

You can find out more about Garrett on his Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/jive_turkey_hikes/, where he has some pretty cool pictures that track his hike this year.

For the first time, we have THREE Class of 2022 members, all hiking together this year. Kera, Brittaney, and Ryan explain why they're going out as a trio, and what got them to this place in their lives that made them want to attempt the trail.

Kera and Brittaney have new Instagram pages if you'd like to follow them along the trail. Kera is at https://www.instagram.com/atfindingme2022/, while Brittaney is at https://www.instagram.com/brkhikes22/. Brittaney and Ryan also have a new YouTube page to follow as well.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRajFlOiVYrtL2UifkJsf9w
There's a bit of a shock in Winton Porter's Passin' Thru this week, as one of our favorite characters turns out to be somebody we didn't actually know. It just goes to show; you can reinvent yourself along the trail.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.2 | 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. |
| 0:34.5 | Hey guys, thanks for coming back to the show. This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:39.0 | the ultimate midlife crisis. And I'm Mighty Blue, your host. Each week we bring you a guest or two |
| 0:44.6 | to feed your interests in the Appalachian Trail, mainly, but we're also bringing you people who've |
| 0:49.4 | hiked other long-distance trails as well. Today though we've got Garrett Tandy, also known as Jive Turkey. |
| 0:55.9 | Garrett completed his 80th through hike a few months ago and many of the emotions you'll |
| 1:00.7 | recognise from previous guests are all part of Garrett's reintegration back into society. |
| 1:05.7 | Garrett will share his thoughts in a moment. We've got a few more members of the class of 2022 today as well. |
| 1:11.8 | Several months ago, a woman contacted me and suggested that I should follow her nephew and his |
| 1:16.0 | girlfriend on the show for 2022. I hadn't actually decided what I was going to do at the time, |
| 1:21.2 | so I asked her to get back to me a little nearer at the time. Well, guess what? Now, the woman who |
| 1:26.5 | wrote to me, Kira Smith, is actually going with |
| 1:29.3 | her nephew and his girlfriend. So we're going to be meeting our first trio of 22 hikers after |
| 1:34.5 | Garrett. Then, shocking revelations that really took me by surprise as I was reading Wind |
| 1:40.5 | and Borders passing through. But we're going to come to that later. Let's first meet Garrett Tandy. |
| 1:46.0 | Here's Garrett. |
| 1:49.3 | So today's guest goes by the really glorious |
| 1:52.2 | for our name of Jive Turkey, |
| 1:54.0 | though my guess is that his family refers to him |
| 1:56.2 | by his given name, Garrett Tandy. |
| 1:58.3 | Hey, Garrett, how are you? |
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