Guru Goes

I’ve been busy working out here in Hot Springs, NC, and decided to take 2 weeks off to do some hiking. There are lots of great options around here and I settled on doing the Appalachian High Route. I love a good loop, no shuttles need. The AHR uses large sections of the Appalachian Trail […]

Day 42 Slept in and after slowly packing up we made our way to the cafe. After a double breakfast, smoothie, and muffin for the road Knucklehead picked us up along with several other hikers to go back to trail. With all to much food in my pack and belly, we got back on trail […]

Day 35 Ugh. Town must make a thru hiker soft cause I just didn’t want to deal. Windy again, snowy again, I’m tired of dealing with it, I want it to be comfortable. But this is thru hiking. Camp @ 856 = 9.1 TM (508.9 TTM) Day 36 Hard climb out in the morning, another […]

Day 29 Part 2 Got to Chama, picked up our packages and ate food. We got offered a ride up to trail so we rolled a couple miles out. Met Diva, Happy, Jacob, Charlie, T-Bone. Camp @ 782.8 miles, returned to trail @ 780 = 2.8 TM (435.7 TTM) Day 30 Met 70lbs hammer, olive […]

Day 20 Got out early and did 22 by 2. Way over achieved. I laid around bored for 4 hours waiting for my friends. Oh well, good day of road walking given I was expecting asphalt and got gravel. Full lunar eclipse tonight. Sunset was beautiful and the eclipse is looking good so far!! Camp […]

This was a big section. 9 days of backpacking without any real town stays. Definitely longest section/trip I’ve ever done and town, as spare as it was, was much appreciated at the end. Day 10 Zero Day! Slept in today. Stressful day (town usually is). Got all the chores done, had a pizza dinner. Packing […]

Believe it or not, I haven’t been in Alabama for 2 years! I’m just terrible at consistently writing. Since there are new things on the horizon I’m going to stop worrying about catching you all up in great detail and simply provide a brief history of my travels since Alabama as to allow us to […]

Day 5 Slept in and had a late breakfast at Kranberries. Headed to the dollar stores and supermarket for resupply. Found some trees and benches across from the past office to loiter about at. We chilled all afternoon waiting for the Sun to dip. Terrible microwave dinner from the dollar store before we headed out […]

Intro I’m journaling random stuff for each day on trail. I’m not putting lots of time into this but thought folks might enjoy the snippets. Day 0 Hitched from SC to Lordsburg. First with Bill, and then Paul. Bill worked on the railroad in Alaska for 40 years. Paul lived and worked in 5+ states […]

The wedding wrapping up I had several weeks till I was to be meeting up with a friend for Thanksgiving near Huntsville, Alabama. Now that I didn’t have a destination it felt like van life was beginning. I could go where I wanted, when I wanted, for as long as I wanted (until Thanksgiving). I […]

With most of my friends and the Rocky Mountains behind me it was time to make it to my friends’ wedding. Nov. 1, 2020 – Kansas I spent a bit of the morning walking with my friend, his sons, and the dog around the beautiful Chatfield State Park. I soon headed out of Denver and […]

Moscow, ID After visiting Pullman, Washington I headed the short drive across the border to Moscow, Idaho to meet up with my cousin Alyssa. We met up for breakfast and she toured me around the University of Idaho where she attends school. After a pit stop at the auto parts store I had what i […]

With the van coming to completion in the middle of October it was time to head out on the road. I was due to a hiker trash wedding of friends from the PCT in early November and hoped to visit a couple others on the long trip. Seattle My first stop was Seattle. I have […]