Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Well, hello. I'm guessing that I'm speaking to a very, very small audience right now,

possibly only my wife, but welcome to this first introductory episode of Mighty Blue on the

Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis.

I've been thinking about doing this for some time and now that it's here, I thought I'd

better introduce myself and tell you what I'd plan for the coming months and maybe even years.

First, I should tell you that my name is Steve Adams and as you can probably tell I'm originally

from across the Atlantic in London. I moved to the States in 2005 to New York City then met and married my long

suffering wife Diane before moving down to Florida. Normally when older people do that they tend to

slow down their life and slip into lazy retirement either on the golf course or horizontally on a beach chair.

Not me, though I certainly did some of that.

At the age of 61 when I really should have known better, I decided to go for the very first hike of my life.

And not just any old hike.

I was going for the Appalachian Trail, that sliver of real estate that snakes up through the eastern

side of the United States, over mountains and through majestic fields, before depositing the

exhausted hiker atop Mount Catardin in Maine, with very little idea of how he got there.

I'd never hiked before, I'd never slept in a tent and was clinically obese at £245 and I had absolutely

no idea what I was let myself in for. My brother rather deathly said that it was like

taking up boxing and fighting Mike Tyson as my first opponent. Yet despite all these negatives,

I took nothing but positivity from my journey, and this is what I hope to share

with you. I'll be interviewing people from all walks and stages of life, and there's many aspects

of hiking the Appalachian Trail that I can include. My plan is to follow the trail from south to north,

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