To the People Along the Path

I didn’t know much of anything about the Appalachian Trail when I decided to hike it.

This was the late 90s, and I was vagabonding around the United States, so information wasn’t nearly as accessible at it is today. Someone had mentioned the trail, it sounded like what I was looking for, so I did it.

At 20 years old, my primary aim in life was to experience the sort of transcendent…