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Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Episode #326 - Ian and Eve Alderman (Our Spectrum Adventures)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Today, we have Ian Alderman on the show. Ian and his daughter, Eve, are hiking the entire length of Britain. While it isn't a super long hike, it is still over a thousand miles and there is very little in the way of a defined path. The West Highland Way WAS a path that made it a little easier for them and that's where I found them.

What's remarkable about these two, though, is that both Ian and his daughter are autistic. Ian and his wife Sarah have determined that they don't intend for Eve to be handicapped by autism, so they are giving her an adventure that, in itself, is spawning other ideas for further adventures.

You can check out their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ourspectrumadventures

If you'd like to offer some support, you can do so here.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/eve-and-ian-john-o-groats-to-lands-end

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dom Tamarro has taken a few days off the trail to return home for a graduation, yet he's now past 500 miles and loving it. By the time you listen to today's show, he'll be back at it.

If you'd like to find out more about "Then The Hail Came," check out George's website at https://georgesteffanos.webador.com/. You can also find George's book on Amazon at this link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFG4ZR6

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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.

0:33.4

Hey guys, it's me again, Mighty Blue, and you are listening to episode number 326 of the podcast,

0:39.6

which is Mighty Blue on the Applachshund Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. Today, I think we've got a real

0:45.0

treat for you. After I hiked the West Highland Way earlier this year, I kind of kept in touch

0:50.3

with that trail reading people's posts on Facebook and seeing their pictures.

0:59.4

And by the way, they're nowhere near as vindictive and nasty as some of the AT Facebook pages.

1:00.6

So, thing on.

1:03.9

These posts really took me back there, I'll tell you.

1:06.8

Anyway, one of the posts particularly grabbed my attention.

1:09.5

It was by a pair of hikers, father and daughter.

1:15.5

When I read that it was about their journey from the very north to the very south of mainland UK,

1:18.3

taken in the West Highland way as part of that hike,

1:25.4

I got especially intrigued, not least because I knew that our spectrum adventures must have something to do with autism.

1:28.7

As you'll hear when we talk, I didn't know the half of it.

1:31.4

Ian is our guest today and he'll be along shortly.

1:36.4

Also today, we'll catch up with one of the surviving Mighty Blue Class of 2022,

1:37.6

Dom Tomorrow.

1:40.9

Don was heading home for five days, but by the time you hear this,

1:43.9

it'll be back at it, still heading north and enjoying it. Then we'll

1:45.1

add the first half of chapter three of George Stephanos's, then the Howell came, where George

1:50.1

and his buddy are battling through the smokies. So let's meet Ian, and even though we don't hear

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