The Appalachian Trail

[skahound]

Has anyone here done the hike? I'm not talking about jumping out of your car and going 100 feet into the woods, I mean from Georgia to Maine; the whole 3 or 4 month journey. There's a guy from here in Orlando that's doing it for charity this year and he calls in weekly to a talk radio show that I listen to, to give updates. I've known about it for years but the pictures that this guy forces your mind to paint are just incredible and it sounds like a really life-affirming trek. The hike has now made it onto my list of 100 things to do before I die.

[speciale]

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That is one goal for me in my life. I have hiked bits and pieces of it but would like to do the entire thing one day. Hell, I am even moving to the Carolinas to be closer to the mountains.

[ds]

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careful or the hicks might eat you

[thesightless]

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i would go to macchu picchu again b4 hiking through the area with the worlds highest incestual rate.

[picklemonkey]

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walk from Georgia to Maine? no thanks

[peloquin]

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careful or the hicks might eat you

[Dhar_2]

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The hike has now made it onto my list of 100 things to do before I die.

where in the 100???

[peloquin]

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right between "get elected president" and "win the nobel peace prize"

[skahound]

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where in the 100???

Not really sure Dhar, I haven't ranked them in a while. It's just something that I'd like to do. It was funny listening to the guy last week when he called in. He was giving gas prices as a point of reference. When he started a month ago gas prices were only at $2.54/gallon in Orlando. Now we're less than a dime away from $3. It just sounded interesting to completely remove yourself from the world for a few months in order to appreciate the changes that take place on a daily basis.

[geoffgulley]

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Trips like that can be incredible, life defining actually. Right after high school my friend Mike and I biked from home here in Cincinnati to Myrtle Beach. 700 miles in 6 days on bicycles. I still tell stories from that ride and the pictures are a hoot. Ah, the days of 110 film.

[maddlingo]

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Trips like that can be incredible, life defining actually. Right after high school my friend Mike and I biked from home here in Cincinnati to Myrtle Beach. 700 miles in 6 days on bicycles. I still tell stories from that ride and the pictures are a hoot. Ah, the days of 110 film.

Thats sounds like a great trip. How did you get back?

[anonin]

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thats a long way to walk!

[geoffgulley]

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Thats sounds like a great trip. How did you get back?

We ended up meeting people from outside of Louisville, Ky and after two weeks in South Carolina we hitched a ride in our new found, and to this day still, friend Tom's pickup truck. Mike and I would switch riding in the cab to truck bed and then spent another week at Tom's farm milking cows, bailing hay... also the first time I worked on a farm. We then made the 100 mile trip back to Cincinnati.

[picklemonkey]

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the only way that trip could've been better is if you had rogue DJs on couches scattered up and down the trail

[anonin]

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the only way that trip could've been better is if you had rogue DJs on couches scattered up and down the trail

true dat