There was a heaviness in me that went beyond exhaustion, a bone-deep weariness that no amount of rest could touch. I’d barely set foot on the Benton MacKaye Trail when I noticed the blister that wasn’t a blister. Squeezing the swollen lump on my foot, I watched in disbelief as a string of green and […]
Long before sunrise I sat in a Waffle House just outside of the Jacksonville airport, feeling like I had just been released from a pressurized capsule, the hatch swinging open to reveal the vast expanse of the cosmos beyond. I was drifting into the cold vacuum of deep, black space, weightless and untethered… alone. I’d […]
Its seems that there is a lot of confusion as to how to get from and to the Long Trail’s northern terminus, either after you have finished your northbound thru hike, or at the beginning of your southbound thru hike. At first I have to admit that it all seemed very confusing, what with Greyhound […]