I found out it takes 3 entries to activate a journal so I figured I would add another typical pre hike entry detailing peoples response to my plan and maybe a bit of the plan itself.
Most people write about how everyone is amazed by their plan to hike the Trail and can’t understand why you would want to. So far I haven’t gotten that reaction. My friends and family have been totally supportive and act like this is just the natural decision to be made, and I appreciate it. Hiking and the woods have become my life. I hike a lot, and work in the woods so it is completely natural. I see people in the future, those who I am less close to having the dumbfounded reaction.
My plan is to start my hike in Georgia sometime during the second week in March. I am not sure how I am getting there but I may take a train down. I am staying in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula at the house I rent in Houghton. Hopefully I can get some work between December when I graduate and March when I leave. I am storing some of my stuff in my Brothers attic and the rest at my parents house in lower Michigan. That’s the plan so far, but I am flexible so we will see how it changes.
