Episode #51 - Daryl Fleischer (Road Trip)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Daryl Fleischer is aware that his thru-hike, hopefully with his lovely wife, is several years in his future. He has work and family responsibilities, like many of us. Yet his joy at being a weekend or occasional day hiker shines through in our conversation. He is a self-confessed trail addict and is prepared to work for his hiking fixes, including sleeping in his car overnight to get a good spot on McAfee Knob the next morning. 
If you'd like to follow our weekend warrior, you can connect with Daryl through Facebook. 
John Boyet returns to feed us another serving of information. This time, John is talking about food and the various options available to hikers. You can always reach out to John for more advice at john@trailwalkergear.com. Don't forget to return to the show next week. I will be celebrating my one year of podcasting and will mark it by talking with Jessa after her successful return from Katahdin.
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| 0:00.0 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi everybody and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:29.1 | We're up to episode number 51. |
| 0:31.4 | The main interview was recorded on July 31 and was intended to be the last one that I preloaded |
| 0:36.8 | before leaving for my ill-fated |
| 0:38.6 | attempt on the John Muir trial the very next day. Oh, by the way, I'm sure you all be pleased |
| 0:44.2 | to know that my partner on that hike, Brandon Jacob, or the dude, successfully completed the |
| 0:50.1 | trail. He must have had a few worries towards the end because he lives in Houston and his wife |
| 0:54.4 | had to cope with everything that entailed. When I heard from Brandon, happily it seems that his home |
| 0:59.2 | avoided being one of those dreadfully inundated by water. Well done dude. Wish I could have made it |
| 1:03.9 | too. The recording of the main interview for this show was delayed until the very last moment. |
| 1:09.9 | I had arranged for somebody else to be the guest. |
| 1:12.3 | Unfortunately, that person let me down and I was left to scramble on my last morning before my |
| 1:16.5 | departure to California. Luckily for me, a real supporter of the show, Darrell Fleischer, |
| 1:21.8 | stepped up and agreed to do it on 10 minutes notice. Darrell was next to my list of people to speak with, but I was hoping to get |
| 1:28.4 | to that list on my return. He was even about to go out for the day with his son on his birthday, |
| 1:33.1 | but he was up for it, and he saved my bacon. Darrell isn't a through hiker, but he's an absolute |
| 1:38.7 | Appalachian trail addict, so he talked about the trail and what it means to him darrell will be along soon john boyette offers |
| 1:47.4 | another of his little advice spots this time on the tricky subject of food on the trail there are |
| 1:52.4 | options out there but which should you choose let john try to point you in the right direction |
| 1:57.1 | now my very own knight in shining armor, Darrell Fleischer. |
| 2:08.3 | Okay. Now, this is a bit of a late notice thing. I'd like to introduce a guy called Darrell |
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