Pill taken...(I think-Can't remember-was it blue...or red????)
Pill taken...(I think-Can't remember-was it blue...or red????)
"Take another road to another place,disappear without a trace..." --Jimmy Buffet
I like these condescending guys
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
Same here-Nobody really likes Billy Bryson - he never did the whole trail, he pissed off some trail angels and did a debbie downer about a hostel,
so why are there so many posts and reads each time the thread comes up?
Did you know the thinking smile was copied from this picture?
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
He pissed off some trail angels? Did anybody actually really see Bryson on the trail?
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
Speaking of good books being made into movies...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337692/
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
Last edited by Wise Old Owl; 10-23-2010 at 22:03. Reason: over the top and can be misinterpreted
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
Yeah but have you ever heard of anyone who saw him? I'm not sure but I think he was a relatively obscure author before AWITW.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
You might check this out:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=40731
"Take another road to another place,disappear without a trace..." --Jimmy Buffet
I bet you didn't think asking a simple question would drive everyone so nuts.
Anyway, I got that part wrong. It wasn't Memorial Day, it was the first say of Spring. So apologies to all as far as that goes.
Bryson claims that he was at Rainbow Springs Campground on the first day of Spring. The reason he claims this is that on the day he goes to Rainbow Springs he gets caught in a bad snowstorm, and he liked the idea of what he calls the "pathetic irony of it." So he changed the date so he could mention the irony of it snowing on March 21st.
How do I know it wasn't March 21st? Because four years after Bryson hiked, Jasnine still had his check-in card. They would have you fill in your info on an index card, and they would write what you ate on the other side so they knew what to charge you when you left. Bryson was there on March 23rd. Big deal, right? Who cares if he was two days off? But the question becomes, "if you'd lie about such a small thing just for the sake of irony, what else would you make up?"
By the way, Bryson also writes about how absolutely horrible the food was at Rainbow Springs. From looking at his card, I also know that he had everything on the menu at least twice.
Ah, but even the worse town food on the trail is better then the food you carried out of town so of course you'll have seconds. Not that I'm saying the food is bad or anything. To be honest, I can't think of ever having a bad meal in a trail stop, even the microwave burritos I had were better then what I carried.
I have a trail connection to trying to read that book as well.
I used to fly a lot in my job and started reading to pass the time. Normally I read history books but bought Moby Dick just to say I read it. Trying to read that book is like slogging through the mud in Vermont. You need to get to the other side so you put your head down and keep going. I tried really hard to read all of it but I don't think I did.
Pain is a by-product of a good time.
Yeah, I'd stick to the history books. I never understood the idea of wasting time reading "Literature" (the fictional variety). Although, I have been thinking about reading A Catcher in the Rye, just to see what the fuss is all about, but so far unable to bring myself to it.
To me reading fiction is not much better than watching T.V.