Hi guys OK, I'm turning this beast loose on the world. Here is the first excerpt from my book. Hoping to get some traction as I begin to pursue a publisher. If you have time, give it a read and please share it with others if you like it, or think they may like it. I'll be posting a couple more excerpts in the coming weeks. This is possibly the most terrifying thing I have ever done, and I've done some stuff. Ha. Cheers. It is not a typical hiking book though. It is really about the experience, rather than the hiking. I look at the transformative effects of long-distance hiking, the people we encounter, how we may change the way we look at the world and interact with it as we hike. I have also interviewed some amazing people who were generous enough to share some of their story with me. It is also an examination of rites of passage, pilgrimage, and the therapeutic nature of hiking. I tell my own experiences, not a step by step, and how I experienced growth and transformation through hiking. It is also a tribute to my friend Jack Tarlin and what I hope is a compassionate, and sincere accounting of who he was at least in some small part. I try to tell his story as well, based on knowning him for 16 years that were not nearly enough. I hope to have a complete draft by September 15, 2019 marking the 20th anniversary of my AT hike.



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