Rebooting my feet AND rebooting the blog.

(…and hello especially to the few people in the world who subscribed to this blog 5 years ago when I made my Appalachian Trail thru-hike attempt)

I had talked about getting on with the Appalachian Trail in the summer after I retired. That’s one kind of rebooting.

Then the novel coronavirus happened.

The short of it is that I’m not going to be trying to finish off the remaining 373.1 miles later this summer as I had once hoped.

In the mean time, I’m planning on broadening the focus of the blog. This is the other kind of rebooting. I want to speak to more than just hiking on a physical path. There are other paths. I want to include now writing about the spiritual path. It’s not just a metaphor. It’s real, as real as that bunch of dirt and rocks stretching from Georgia to Maine.

I will still write about hiking the Trail, especially since we now live just a couple miles from it and since (barring pandemics) I could theoretically be on the Trail pretty much whenever I want. I will write about the Trail and post photos from it when I’m out there pursuing my dream of walking the whole thing.

Still with me? A quick way to separate the two kinds of posts will be to look at the “Category” each is assigned, either “Hiking” or “Spirituality.” (This particular post is in both.) I think I can set it up so you can subscribe to a feed of only one sort, but I haven’t done that yet.

Stay tuned. Thanks!