[at-l] who, where, & why

[gadog430 at charter.net (Ga. Dawg)]

Well, I don't know many of you. And my love of the AT has to extend to
just love right now. I have no time for anything else until next summer.
But that love has been long growing. I grew up in Georgia, and although
my family never backpacked, we did camp. A lot. At Winfield Scott and
Vogel and Amicalola. Heck, we only lived 15 miles from Amicalola. And
sometime around the early 80's (I'm old), my Dad and I were talking one
day and I discovered how close the AT was to Winfield Scott...just never
realized it even though we camped there for years. My love for it, and
my personal regard and 'guard of it, just grew from there. People ask
all the time what other people would do if they won they lottery. Well
let me say, I would live well no doubt, but I would also make sure that
two things I love would never lack for money: my dad and the ATC. My Dad
and his college roommate are still best friends, and they hike the AT in
Georgia and close states. They are in their 60's and I just love that
they do this. The Three Musketeers. 
 
As far as the other questions:
Trail Name: Well, I am guessing it would be Dawg if I had one. 
 
Hiking: Day hikes when I can. But I wear my hiking boots on campus. Does
that count?
 
AT: Well, if everyone loved and regarded like we all do, we wouldn't
have a problem now would we?
 
Marital Status: Not. And not sure. Tricky stuff. I didn't get an offer
to marry the one person I would have in the past few years. Cest la Vie.
 
Age: I am 38. I am truly surprised I lived this long. But I will be 39
next year and have my degree. Life is never truly over. 
 
Kids: Two. One lives with me. The other lives at boarding school. 
 
Color: Hunter Green...and Red of course. GO DAWGS!!!
 
Place want to visit: Nepal. And Paris. Sort of opposite huh?
 
Movies: The best movie ever is Sound of Music (classic choice) and When
Harry Met Sally (modern choice). As long as someone falls in love, or I
don't fall asleep or look at my watch, its cool. Oh, and I would just
like to say MIKE WOZOWSKI!!
 
Books: Oh man. There isn't enough bandwidth to address this. Fav: the
Fountainhead. The GREATEST book ever. Read all the Harry Potters. I love
the Linda Greenlaw books. Jon Krakauer. Steinbeck short stories. And
Biographies. I love to read non-fiction. And anything about the early
days of the computer industry. Man, you want intrigue and dumb luck and
stupid decisions, read about Jobs, Gates, Ellison, McNealy and male
egos. Nothing rivals it in modern history. Nothing. And magazines, I am
addicted to mags. 
 
Music: Anything 70's. Anything folk. Most Jazz. Most old country. R&B.
No Rap. No twangy stuff. 
 
TV: HBO. And I try never to miss an episode of Survivor. And I used to
never miss Friends, but now it sucks. 
 
For a living: I used to be an accountant. Then I got laid off after 12
years. I went back to school, where I remain until next summer. 
 
Vacation: Maine. Outer Banks. Anywhere with waves. I do mountains year
round since I live close. For vacation, I want sand. 
 
Things I want to do before I die: 
1. Travel to Nepal. I don't want to climb Everest, I think Lhotse is
more interesting. But then again, my love of Everest existed before the
current spat/glut of climbing. It's been ruined. But I still want to see
Nepal. 
2. Fall in love and be loved. Deeply. Just once is all I am asking for. 
3. Go to Paris. 
4. Own a Sea Kayak and take it to Maine. 
5. Live in Maine, if only for a year. 
6. Buy a house. 
7. Finish college. FINALLY!!!
8. Have another convertible. 
9. Find out what became of Bryan Kohn (high school crush that I have
always wondered about). 
 
I don't think I am that complicated. Well, ok, maybe. But I am female.
We have standards you know. 
Dawg

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From: at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of
KellyGoVols@aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:27 PM
To: Snodrog5@aol.com; at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [at-l] who, where, & why 


Wow, TJ, you've inspired me.  OK, here goes:

- Trail name - ain't got an official one, but I think GoVols is gonna
stick...
- Hiking done:  Florida Trail about 400 miles.  The AT? About 50 yards.
I saw my first white blazed and kissed it.  Will hike AT within the next
four years
- AT bug caught at age 30, dragged kicking and screaming car camping and
brought a curling iron on first trip.  (LOL!)
- Single/Married?  Engaged to my best friend, been with The Boy for
going on 11 years.
- Age?  Lawd, about fourteen as far as I'm concerned.  In years? 35.
- Do you have or want children?  No and No. (Two God Children, though.)
- Color?  olive green
- Place I want to go?  China, Yangtzee River and surrounding villages.
- Movies?  Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Cruel
Intentions, Tombstomb, My Cousin Vinnie, Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil, The Matrix, Mulholland Drive, Anything with Jet Li....Or
Angelina Jolie, I just have a thing for Asians and people with big lips.
- Books?  Gawd, got an hour?  Let's try and narrow it down.  The Hotel
New Hampshire, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, all
by John Irving. Stormy Weather by Carl Haisson, Prodigal Summer by
Barbara Kingsolver, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Biography
of Colin Powell and Fidel Castro (and I'm a Democrat!) Just finished The
Secret Life of Bees, which is now in the hands of thru-hiker Liteshoe.
Currently reading The Red Tent, recommended by thru-hiker Liteshoe.  I
have a library of about 1000 books (there all over the place at home)
and I've read over 3000, including the "See Spot Run" books when I was
little.  I have a thing for counting (steps from the house to the car,
books I've read, how many times I pee a day, other mundane crap, OK, I
know I'm strange)
- Other reading?  Online journals (currently following six people) Time,
Newsweek and yes, I admit it, The National Enquirer.
- TV?  HBO!  God, the Soprano's, Sex and the City, and especially, Six
Feet Under.  Also, I have never missed an episode of Friends.  Also,
Reality TV. I'm definitely addicted to this crap.  All the news
channels, even though I often through things at the TV, especially when
watching The O'Reilly Factor. Weather Channel, which drives The Boy
crazy. (He says meteorologist are the only people on the planet that can
be wrong 100% of the time and still keep their jobs.)
- For a living:  I'm a paralegal for a capital case defense firm in Fort
Lauderdale.  What I do in my spare time?  Write, and throw it away when
I'm done. 
- Vacations?  Split ever year with The Boy.  He picked last year
(Vermont, thank heavens) I picked this year, the same place I picked my
last turn:  Tennessee. (Go Vols!)
- I'm blonde haired, blue eyed, short and eternally southern.  I'm
honest an open (which you ALL know by now) And have a big freaking
mouth.  I laugh a lot.  And I cry a lot.  
-  I smoke and I drink, and I'm strange. I try not to annoy people, but
often do. (I'm so glad The Boy puts up with me.  But, he's a little
strange, too)

That's pretty much it, folks.  Oh, yeah, I like to Garden. RoksnRoots
often gives me advice on planting things in South Florida. It's so
DIFFERENT than in Tennessee, where we grew and canned EVERYTHING.
Thanks RnR!

Ok, I think that's it.  

Oh yeah, sorry Felix, I have a crush on Datto now.

FlirtyGoVols

In a message dated 6/16/2003 7:34:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Snodrog5@aol.com writes:



- Trail name ~ TJ, but I answer to "Teej" too
- Hiking done ~ over 1/2 the AT with many sections hiked more than once
in 
different directions and seasons, most every major trail in VT, NH and
Maine, 
tourist hiking in the Rockies, Canada, and most of the National Parks in
the 
West
- Through-hiking or Sectioning? I have no plans to finish every AT
section 
I'm missing right now. So I guess I'm through sectioning. 
- Hiking now ~ I like bushwhacking in Baxter State Park and the
Allagash, and 
hiking against the flow of thruhikers on the AT in ME, NH, and VT. I
like it 
up here.
- Hiking to do ~ the IAT in Canada, middle 1/3 of the Long Trail this
July to 
complete it as a section hike, Olympia National Park, Scotland
- AT 'Bug' caught ~ at 10 or 11, my third or fourth time on top of
Katahdin, 
when I was looking toward Georgia with my hand on the sign wondering if 
someone 2000 miles away was looking toward Maine wondering if...
- Single/Married ~ Married to my best friend
- How long ~ 21 years in this Oct
- Age ~ 39 (In Moose Years), it's not the age anyway, it's the mileage
- Do you want/have children ~ Yes! Mikey, Katie, and Billy; ages 9 to 13
- Color ~ That pink-purple-orange pastel kinda color when the alpine
glow is 
on the high peaks
- Place to go ~ The deep dark woods, where the Ents still live
- Movie ~ Could be 'Searching for Bobby Fischer', 'Robin Hood' with
Errol 
Flynn, 'Mary Queen of Scots' with Katharine Hepburn, 'Heidi', 'Things 
Change', 'The Nightmare before Christmas', 'Lilo &Stitch', 'Midsummer 
Night's Dream', 'The Princess Bride', 'Stagecoach'- the 'She Wore a
Yellow Ribbon' 
triolgy-'The Searchers'-all with John Wayne, 'Casablanca', 'The Maltese 
Falcon', most all 
early 'big production' musicals, and almost all Gene Kelly or Fred
Astaire 
musicals
- Location ~ On the Mass/NH border
- City ~ Aberdeen Scotland, Portland Maine, Ouray Colorado, Quebec City 
- TV ~ PBS, AMC, Weather Channel, History Channel, Star Gate
- Web site ~ eBay, PBS, Ancestry.com
- Music ~ from Cole Porter to the Dead, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Carol
King, 
Billie Holiday, Paul Simon, Jane Monheit, and Diana Krall
- Non-AT Books ~ (to make the list shorter)  Hemingway, Jack London,
Tolkien, 
Daniel Defoe, Patrick O'Brian, Edward Abbey, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel 
Hawthone, the Dalai Lama, Tony Hillerman, Kipling, Mark Twain, Noam
Chomsky, 
Stephen Ambrose, Sir Walter Scott, Thoreau, Apsley Cherry-Garrard,
Kenneth Roberts, 
Schopenhauer, JK Rowling, Madeline L'Engle, David McCullough, Sir
Winston 
Churchill, Ursula LeGuin.
- Family Vacation ~ Take the kids to Katahdin 2 or three times a year,
Summer 

place in Ocean Park, Maine, Disney World every other Spring
- Personal Vacation ~ backpacking in Northern New England
- Where did you live most your life ~ Kennebunk Maine
- Memorable childhood memory ~ Wandering in the woods, learning to sail,

splitting cord wood all summer
- Employment ~ Retired from Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
- Enjoyment ~ Backpacking, coaching youth basketball, volunteering,
playing 
in an 'over-the-hill' baseball league, dawn swims in the Gulf of Maine,
and 
tracking down early AT writings

Teej







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