After his hike he said: ‘I never enjoyed the hiking part. In fact, the more you read about thru-hikers the more you end up being filled with a kind of wonder. They just can’t stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder. “A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. I never encountered anything so hard, for which I was so ill prepared. I was hopelessly out of shape – hopelessly. Bryson, along with an old friend of his, decided to take on this massive and iconic American Trail that passes through 14 states, with very little training or experience at the age of 44.īryson has a wonderful writing style filled with hilarious anecdotes, emotional moments, revelations and interesting facts and history about the regions he hiked through. While at the bookstore the other day, I came across the book A Walk in the Woods by the notorious travel writer Bill Bryson. Since I fell in love with hiking and heard about the Appalachian Trail, it has always been a bit of a romantic notion of mine to conquer this almost 2,200 mile trail.
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