A Walk in the Woods
I looked to the woods, too. "Yeah, probably. We've still gotta do it." I hoisted my pack and took a backward stagger under the w ...
Black Mountain, I stood and waited a long while, and thought about going back, but eventually turned and struggled on. I had eno ...
longer and more carefully reflective, with messages along the lines of "So here I am at Springer at last. I don't know what the ...
I stood for a minute, speechless and flummoxed, too tired to be indignant. Too tired to be hungry either, come to that. I crawle ...
He looked at me. "Really?" then added, as if for the record: "I love oatmeal." "What about some of that cheese?" He shook his he ...
so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in ...
though that was the original plan. It was conceived a century ago as a kind of woodland bank, a permanent repository of American ...
cheerful, nodding wonders almost beyond counting. There are 1,500 types of wildflower in the southern Appalachians, 40 rare type ...
murmurings and stirrings, like the noises of a convalescent ward after lights out, until at last I fell heavily asleep. In the m ...
She fixed him with one of her more severe squints. "Same as the rest of me, of course." She gave me a private look as if to say, ...
first time since Amicalola I took off my jacket and realized with mild perplexity that I had absolutely no place to put it. I ti ...
just another week, but in the end he had broken down and wept quietly and asked from the heart to be let go home. My own feeling ...
continue to do on future days, over the same sorts of hills, along the same wandering track, through the same endless woods. The ...
hitchhike into Hiawassee for dinner and a night in a motel. Plan B was that we would kill Mary Ellen and take her Pop Tarts. And ...
purposes of hilarity, and I supposed this was one of those moments. I was about to fly for cover, and even Katz was halfway to h ...
"Yew are? Well, good for you. Have a drink then." "No really." "How 'bout yew?" she said to me. "Oh, no thanks." I couldn't have ...
Perhaps it was the lingering influence of the book, perhaps simply the time of day, or maybe nothing more than the unaccus-tomed ...
requirements. I was just plunging into it when Katz broke a long silence by saying, with a strange kind of nervousness, "You kno ...
We had been walking for about half an hour when another hiker--a fit-looking middle- aged guy--came along from the other directi ...
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light agai ...
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