Category: Trail Lessons

My background is in aviation. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with aircraft and flight. I followed my passion and enjoyed a wonderful career with a commercial airline. Besides earning a living and traveling the world, I’ve taken several ideas from aviation and adopted them into my life…checklists and acronyms. Most […]

You ever have one of those days where you don’t feel like doing whatever it is you’re supposed to do? It happens to me…likely too often. Urgency, planning, or deadlines are sometimes not even enough to push me to “git r done”. The easy way is to find or make up an excuse. Our minds […]

Long distance hiking can be quite monotonous. Each day being the same…eat, walk, sleep…repeat. Daily hiker life and chores become routine. While the body seems to adapt, the mind is another matter. Our brains don’t like monotony. It can quickly lead to boredom, frustration, depression, or just a general poor attitude. On trail, attention to […]

Do you ever wonder why it seems that other people are having all the fun? That used to be me. As I looked out from the tiny window of my comfort zone, I’d wonder how these folks got to be so lucky. Don’t they have responsibilities? Shouldn’t they being doing something more constructive with their […]

Ten months ago today, I finished the AT! Where does the time go? Thank you to all who followed my journey. In the later stages of my hike, cellular signal was spotty at best. That technological hiccup, and my own waning desire to write, unfortunately impacted my BLOG. The closer I got to Katahdin, the […]