Episode #95 - Anna and Branden Jones (Sweet Tea and Moose)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Anna Jones wrote to me a few months back to thank me for the various shows and our guests. Anna and Branden were planning a flip-flop, starting in May, so I asked her if they would like to be interviewed for the show once they had 500 miles under their feet. They are now in Vermont, getting ready for the AT's biggest and, in my opinion, best challenges–New Hampshire and Maine.

Our interview was a delight, with stories and perceptions–including encounters with a few of our previous guests–mixed in a wide-ranging interview. You'll be impressed by their thoughtful responses.

You can follow along with this wonderful couple on their Facebook Group under BrandAnna Hike The AT

We also saw the return of Cesar Becerra in If I Did It Again. Considering that his hike lasted over a year, it seemed likely that Cesar might change one or two things.

We hope that you take the opportunity to support our sponsor, Trailtopia, when you consider your next backpacking trip. Go to https://www.trailtopia.com/ to check out their wide variety of meals.

Transcript

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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.
0:33.6	Hi everybody and welcome back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, sponsored by Trialopia Adventure Foods.
0:40.4	This week we have a listener who wrote to me several months ago to comment positively about the show
0:45.3	and thank my guests for the help that she and her husband gleaned from the various shows in our back catalogue.
0:51.0	Once she called on to the podcast, she had binge listened and she wrote to me
0:54.4	once she was up to date. I get lots of emails like that, but Anna's was special. I've been on
1:00.4	the lookout for flip-floppers this year, I'm still going to say oboes, and Anna and Brandon were
1:05.8	about to start their own flip-flop from Harper's Ferry in May. I wrote back to her thanking her for a kind
1:11.5	words about the show and asked if she'd like to be a guest once she and Brandon had completed
1:15.4	500 miles. Yep, you guessed it. They're past the 500 mile mark. So this week they're sharing
1:21.1	their story. I can tell you now, they surprised me in a really good way. Also, we had the return of one of our earliest guests, Caesar Bacera.
1:31.0	Caesar and his former wife, Maud, were our guests in episode number five,
1:35.2	when they're told of their Thurr hike.
1:37.2	And believe me, Thurr was the right word.
1:39.6	They spent over a year on the trail.
1:42.4	Caesar is back in this week's installment of
1:44.5	If I get it again.
1:47.2	Yeah, plenty to say.
1:49.3	Finally, we're finishing
1:50.4	of Chapter 6 of the year we seize the day
1:52.7	by Elizabeth Best and my buddy Colin Bowles.
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