The best time to start the Appalachian Trail, or the AT which starts at Springer Mountain, Georgia and goes to Mount Katahdia, Maine, depends on which way you are going, i.e. Northbound, Southbound, or a Flip Flop. Your speed on trail, i.e. 41 days is the record but most people are at least 100 day to 7 months. The amount […]
Picking the best shelter is not about picking the best shelter that is out there but picking the best shelter for you. There is so many choices out there that it will send your head spinning and you might still get it wrong. I picked the smallest, lightest, budget friendly shelter but found that I was in a tomb and […]
Pros pick items that make their backpacks lighter but also that makes their trips special. They pick items that can be use in several ways, i.e. duct tape can fix a lot of gear issues so you don’t need a lot of fix it kits but in a pinch, it can also be used to tape down a bandage. Pros […]
Most people complicated things by over planning, over packing, over spending, and make it harder then it should be. But the truth is you only need 4 things to hike the AT (Appalachian Trail): the physically mentally and emotional grit and desire to complete the trail, about 5 to 7 months off your real life, a backpack full of mostly […]
It is the question that I have been asking since deciding to do a through hike it back in the summer of 2020. Then I tried to hike it in 2021. Due to everything going wrong, I only lasted a month but the top answer on the internet that I found was about $1000 dollars per month without the cost […]
So, for the last 2 weeks, every time that I start a post. Something comes up. So this is a bit delayed. But I will be going back to weekly. I tried to hike the Appalachian Trail in 2021. I left after 30 days. It was not a great experience in a lot of ways and most of them were […]
I am running late to post today. I started something yesterday but with the weather outside and with so many areas effected, I changed topic at the last moment. The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin was a book that I read a few years back, like over 10 years ago, and it was horrific to read about over 500 people […]
The world is changing so fast with technology advancements that are changing everything that I thought that I knew in such a short time frame. DNA is turn the tide of human evaluation as scientist around the world are taking old bones from Neanderthals and other man like bones and having them tested. The DNA results are amazing. They are […]
Spoiler alert. I will be talking about Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin throughout this post as if someone has read the book. The Audiobook is available free on Youtube and can be read on line free as the book was published in 1811 and no longer under copyright laws. Women being put on the shelf after a certain age […]
Note: For some reason this did not post last week. So I am adding to it a bit. Sorry for the delay. One of my favorite authors is Jane Austin. I did not like her all that much until A&E Pride and Prejudice came out. But then I was young! The more that I read her the more I can […]