Happy trails all the way - Macon Telegraph

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<table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7><tr><td valign=top class=j><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class=lh><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/columnists/ed_grisamore/story/735666.html&cid=0&ei=HwgmSrW4EuXbmQfwi6iqBw&usg=AFQjCNEh83eA-vTKZThyVpjW7Q2z89it6g">Happy trails all the way</a><br><font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Macon Telegraph,&nbsp;GA</font></font><br><font size=-1>May 31, 1951, one month after his 24th birthday, Espy set out to hike the entire <b>Appalachian Trail</b>. He took along a 45-pound backpack and an 18-year-old hiking companion. He would have started sooner, but he had to wait for his friend to graduate from <b>...</b></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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Met him and the Mrs. at the hiker bash in Franklin ths year. Very gracious couple, and he's quite interesting.

When I told him where I live he recalled passing through on a bicycle road trip from Cordele, Georgia west into Alabama south to the Fla panhandle, east to Jacksonville, then through Waycross on the return home, this when he was only 16.