Congrats!!!! I'm 3 months away. Can't wait. Maybe I'll run into you on the trail.
Congrats!!!! I'm 3 months away. Can't wait. Maybe I'll run into you on the trail.
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Yes, “Many years”, like for a birthday or congratulations.
76 HawkMtn w/Rangers
14 LHHT
15 Girard/Quebec/LostTurkey/Saylor/Tuscarora/BlackForest
16 Kennerdell/Cranberry-Otter/DollyS/WRim-NCT
17 BearR
18-19,22 AT NOBO 1562.2
22 Hadrian's Wall
23 Cotswold Way
Congratulations! Iowa State, and its library will is you.
When you head to Yellowstone, let me know. I can provide a shuttle service, as your retirement gift. :-)
totally not trying to "hijack" the thread or whatever. and map man, this has ~nothing~ to do with you. hell yeah to you brah. you're ~done~ and you've just begun!
but isn't america interesting? you work for 20-30 years, the first few years of those being when you are most fit.
then, once the hips/back/knees/ankles are almost at their limits, you retire. and you have free time. and (not for all but for most) everything hurts and is already sore. and so, often, free time means watching people's court.
Congratulations.
Congrats and continued good health to you! Enjoy!
Congrats MapMan,
I tried to retire in December. When I told my boss and my wife I was ready they both freaked out. My boss asked me for more time and made me an offer I couldnt' refuse, 3 months vacation in 2019. I took it. Leaving 2/14 for a month on the trail, Springer northbound.
Turn 55 in Feb of 20, hopefully thru hike then. Needless to say, with that 3 months of vacation, I will get a lot more trail time this year.
hike on!
l0ngterm
Congratulations to Map Man and all our retirees. Expecting to join you before the end of 2019.
Sounds like a great plan. Do it while you still can. After that the memories will still be there, still bringing smiles and pleasant memories.
I hope you do all that and more. As the miles pass behind you will come up with more ideas for more adventures and I hope you, and everyone else here, enjoys them all.
I sure as hell am going to try to.
./~Hi ho, hi ho, it's up the trail I go ./~
Congratulations Mapman. I have been so impressed with the thoughtfulness of the AT data posted in the past. Am sure your future hikes will be equally classy.
Congratulations! I am jealous of your newly acquired free time for hiking.
Don't take anything I say seriously... I certainly don't.
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Congrats Mapman! Hope to see you out there on the AT this year.
"A man's got to know his limitations"
Clint Eastwood.