Monday marked my third week back in ordinary life, and a tsunami of resistance scattered my well-laid plans, smashing my productivity to sentence fragments. I returned to my Long Trail Journal for insight. My entry for my eleventh day on the trail reads, “A big day of overcoming resistance with presence.” My journal for my […]
Lessons from the Long Trail
Trail Angels on The Long Trail
TRAIL ANGELS Even though Jan and I were the ones hiking, we had help from a host of truly divine Trail Angels on the Long Trail. Before we even left, we had help. Back in July, three members of my family with lots of backpacking experience took me on a shake-down hike in the White […]
Twenty-five Days on The Long Trail
We were about ten minutes into our twenty-five day hike on the Long Trail, still two miles south of the Vermont border where the 275-mile Long Trail begins, when I said, “We’re not going to make it.” “What do you mean?” Jan asked. We’d been planning this trip for a year and a half; Jan […]