MD wrote:I'm seriously considering walking into the south end of the Appalachian trail next month, and heading north. I'm not completely nuts. I have the skills, and my sixty year old body might just be able to handle it. Either I will emerge at the north end, or I won't. No phone, no internet. It will be all about food, water, and the next step. Why not? It's not like I haven't done this before. Yeah, it was a long time ago, but if I meet the bear along the way and don't come out? so what
Newfie wrote:MD,
Go for it! Take a cell phone and a PLB (Personal Locator Beacon).
Maybe take a couple of warm up trips, or plan your start so you can condition your body. But I suspect you know that.
MD wrote:I'm seriously considering walking into the south end of the Appalachian trail next month, and heading north. I'm not completely nuts. I have the skills, and my sixty year old body might just be able to handle it. Either I will emerge at the north end, or I won't. No phone, no internet. It will be all about food, water, and the next step. Why not? It's not like I haven't done this before. Yeah, it was a long time ago, but if I meet the bear along the way and don't come out? so what
MD wrote:depressed? yeah I'm depressed. who wouldn't be that takes a hard look at life? My somewhat flippant comment about meeting the bear? guess what, we're all gonna meet the bear one day. The question is: do you want to meet him while doing something you love, or something you hate? That my friend, is the question I have answered for myself.
MD wrote:The question is: do you want to meet him while doing something you love, or something you hate? That my friend, is the question I have answered for myself.
Newfie wrote:I’m still trying to figure out a way to sail to Greenland. But I need at least one if not two crew. Finally figured out I would need to make it over 2 seasons, one up, one back. Ran it past my Wife, I think she may be amenable to it. I’d probably have to make the long 700 mile leg up alone, that’s OK. I can do that. It’s getting back where I need crew. Those longest legs are no more that 250 miles.
I’m 68 but am doing OK. I’m gonna do it it’s gotta be soon.
MD wrote:I'm seriously considering walking into the south end of the Appalachian trail next month, and heading north. I'm not completely nuts. I have the skills, and my sixty year old body might just be able to handle it. Either I will emerge at the north end, or I won't. No phone, no internet. It will be all about food, water, and the next step. Why not? It's not like I haven't done this before. Yeah, it was a long time ago, but if I meet the bear along the way and don't come out? so what
delorme makes a nice little and lightweight gps locator. only about ten hours on two aaa, but if it's only on for emergencies, that might be good enough. only so much room in the backpack, you know. and by the way, along with walking five miles a day, I've been carrying 40 pounds on my shoulders for the same distance.
Ibon wrote:Plantagents suggestion is nice but stick to the North American wilderness for what ails you. Trappings of christianity, no matter how nicely dressed they are in century old stone churches doesn't nourish the soul nearly as well as pure wilderness.. no church organ can match the song of the Wood Thrush.
Plato[edit]
In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that there were three genders: man, woman and the "Androgynous", each with two sets of genitalia with the Androgynous having both male and female genitalia. The men were children of the sun, the women were children of the earth and the Androgynous were children of the moon, which was born of the sun and earth. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the gods. The gods were then faced with the prospect of destroying the humans with lightning as they had done with the Titans but then they would lose the tributes given to the gods by humans. Zeus developed a creative solution by splitting humans in half as punishment for humanity's pride and doubling the number of humans who would give tribute to the gods. These split humans were in utter misery to the point where they would not eat and would perish so Apollo had sewn them up and reconstituted their bodies with the navel being the only remnant harkening back to their original form. Each human would then only have one set of genitalia and would forever long for his/her other half; the other half of his/her soul. It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would lie with each other in unity and would know no greater joy than that.[3]
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