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Penelope’s Thoughts
Below are the thoughts that I have on different places, books, history, historical people, and other things as I travel down the road!
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What You Need to Hike the Appalachian Trail
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,…
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How to Budget for an Appalachian Trail Through Hike?
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…
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Appalachian Trail Fail in 2021!
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…