A different kind of journey
You probably thought I was done with this blog. So did I, actually. But in the many months since my last post, I did a couple of things I thought worth mentioning. One, I hiked almost another 400 miles of the AT in parts of New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia accompanied by either Jusmel or Speedbump the whole time. My son Zack shared the trail through part of NY. As much as I liked hiking alone, hiking with a great partner is better. Two, I wrote a novel. I didn't manage to hike the entire trail in one year but, much to my surprise, I did manage to finish a book based in part on my experiences on the trail. It is called Hitch's Story. It is the story of a young man who returned from Vietnam in1968 and decided to walk the war out of his system by hiking the AT. He walked away from his mother and brother and was never heard from again. Until now. His younger brother, now 65 years old, receives a package in the mail with Hitch's war medals and an old, fade