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The Appalachian Trail
I completed a 1,000-mile, four-month hike of the Appalachian Trail (GA to PA) in July 2006. During this time, I kept a blog here about my Journey. Below are links to entries and pictures which might provide more information if you are curious about the AT or planning your own thru-hike:
1. Cost of a thru-hike.
2. The gear I used after four months on the Trail.
3. Examples of essential gear (with photos).
4. Examples of the food I ate (with photos).
5. Photos of my hike from Springer Mt., Georgia, to Erwin, TN.
6. Photos of my hike from Erwin, TN, to Damascus, VA.
7. Photos of my hike from Damascus, VA, to Caledonia State Park, PA.
8. Trail Days 2006.
9. My Ten Fundamental Truths About Thru-hiking the AT
10. My Trailcast.com interview at Miss Janet's House hostel.
Some more good resources for contacting real thru-hikers are: trailjournals.com and whiteblaze.net .
If you have any other questions concerning the AT, please feel free to ask me about it by writing to [email protected] .
I'd like to meet:
Jack Sparrow, Mrs. Robinson, James Bond, Jane Eyre, Samantha Carter, Nicolai Hel, Fergie, Kari Byron, Salma Hayek, Frylock, Eowyn, Hawk
Music:
I could not live solo on a desert island without my:
Led Zeppelin, Who, Johnny Cash, Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam, Grateful Dead, Yonder Mountain String Band, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Van Halen, Boston, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vivaldi, Copeland, Carmina Burana
I’m really turned on by this music... and vice versa!
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Movies:
So many to choose, but here are some classics to start with...
Action: Aliens, Wrath of Khan, Armegeddon, Terminator II
Comedy: The Big Lebowski, Office Space, Joe Dirt, Meet the Parents, The Spy Who Shagged Me, So I Married an Axe Murderer, School of Rock
SciFi: Silent Running, Planet of the Apes (original), Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Drama: Scent of a Woman, The Graduate, Little Big Man, Dead Poets Society, American Beauty, Into the Wild
Horror: Alien, Poltergeist, Jaws, American Psycho, The Exorcist, From Dusk Till Dawn, Evil Dead
Suspense: Silence of the Lambs, The Duel, Seven
Romantic: A Room with a View, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chasing Amy, Groundhog Day
Musical: Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof
Children's: Charlotte's Web (original), Little Mermaid, Black Stallion
Television:
If given the time, I watch too much TV--I'm also a channel hopper because commercials annoy me. I switch back and forth mainly between SciFi, History, VH1, Spike, Adult Swim, and Discovery.
Books:
I'd highly recommend:
~ The Little House (Burton)
~ The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
~ The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
~ The Stand (King)
~ A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
~ The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
~ Frankenstein (Shelley)
~ Hamlet (Shakespeare)
~ The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
~ A Coney Island of the Mind ( Ferlinghetti )
~ A Walk Across America (Jenkins)
Heroes:
LOL! Some long-DEAD or FICTIONAL "white" guys...
Socrates
The Doctor
Gandalf the Grey
Daniel Jackson
Obi Wan Kenobi
M. Tullius Cicero
Henry David Thoreau
J.R.R. Tolkien
Holden Caulfield
Nick Carraway
Linus Pauling
And my childhood friend who I hadn't seen in 25 years:
George
