[at-l] trail newbie

[orangebug74@yahoo.com (Orange Bug)]

If you aren't scared, you would have good reason to doubt your sanity.

>From my sectioning and talking with thru hikers, I suggest that you
should expect all your expectations to change. Breathing, sleeping and
eating are very different away from the highway and flatland. You are
about to enter an adventure that can be terribly boring and mundane
much of the time. Endurance and perseverance are probably more
important than courage. Courage only gets you to March 1. The other
stuff gets you to Katahdin.

Good luck.

Bill...

--- round tripper <roundtripper2001@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the encouragement :)  And for the suggestions I've
> received so 
> far.  Guess I should stop expecting trail life to in any way mirror
> "real" 
> life other than the breathing, eating, and sleeping parts.  The only
> thing I 
> truly expect is that each day will unfold as it should, and that I
> will be 
> there to meet every challenge!  Maybe it's not fear I'm feeling, it
> seems 
> more like that kind of tensed-up feeling, like something great is
> going to happen but I don't know what!


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