Hiking thousands of miles over a few months involves a fair bit of potential monotony. Personally, my mind and spirit are perpetually engaged when hiking above treeline, or when following a creek, but there remains stretches of miles upon miles … Continue reading
Category Archives: Journeys
The Activity of Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Back in my former persona as a blogger, three or four long weeks ago–back when I focused on the virtues of kindness, community and humanity–much of the foundation for what I wrote came from my study and understanding of early … Continue reading
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Cindy’s Perspective
Cindy knows that I am sharing her story on my blog and will be writing a book that shares her story as well. That begs the question of how she feels about that. Here is Cindy’s perspective about her early … Continue reading
The Simplicity of Hiking the PCT
This past week Cindy and I started going for walks wearing almost full backpacks. We are training for our five-month, 2666 mile hike of the Pacific Crest Trail that will start in June. On the first day Cindy could not … Continue reading
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American Discovery – First Movement – First Draft – Beautiful Day
I am working on a symphonic presentation of our American Discovery Trail journey. I will compose the original themes, then other musicians and composers will embellish. This is all being done to raise funds for early onset dementia research, the … Continue reading
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The Community of Antimony
Antimony, Utah is one of the most secluded towns in the country. Mainly a ranching community, Antimony was the last town in Utah to get electricity. We were the beneficiaries of some noted kindness in Antimony. The owner of the … Continue reading
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The Kindness of Ted
The American Discovery Trail have state coordinators that overlook their section of trail, lobbying to get things done for the ADT within their states, publicizing the value of the ADT and lending a helping hand to those hiking the trail. … Continue reading
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The Kindness of Matt and Miriam
In focusing on Trail Angel Day a couple of posts back I skipped over our first real Trail Angels in Nevada, Matt and Miriam from Switzerland. We met them at a very opportune time. There would be hotter days than … Continue reading
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The Kindness of Angie
Despite our good fortune on Trail Angel Day, we encountered very few people in Nevada. We did go through some ranch lands, which led to our encounter with Angie. I was still feeling the effects of an intestinal virus; when … Continue reading
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Trail Angel Day
When I give talks about our ADT Journey I usually mention something about Trail Angel Day, what we named the day where we received the greatest number of separate acts of kindness. Ironically, this day came along one of the … Continue reading
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