It is the end of another year and what a year it has been. I’ve traveled up and down the east coast of the US, met many old friends, and made lots of new ones. I was especially moved by the reception I’ve had at so many of the public libraries, ham radio clubs and hikers groups that I’ve given my Appalachian Trail presentation at.
Although the weather didn’t cooperate, I managed a day as a “Trail Angel” up in New Hampshire along the AT and it was thrilling to meet this year’s crop of thru-hikers on their way to Mt. Katahdin in Maine. Jane and I also managed to do a day hike up the twin peaks of Mt. Hancock—I highly recommend it. Mt. Hancock was in the first Chapter of THREE HUNDRED ZEROES
Writing and publishing a book has been a wonderful learning experience for me. I still learn new things every day and I think it is helping me stay young to be so involved in something. Admittedly, I confess falling behind in some of my activities and as part of my New Year’s resolutions I’ll have to see if I can spend more time involved with my ham radio and bicycling avocations.
This coming year does hold some promise for a long hike. Jane and I are considering hiking the 500 miles of the Camino Santiago in Spain. I’ve just completed an interesting book about it, THE CAMINO CHRONICLES, by Susan Alcorn , and she made it sound like a great challenge.
The year wouldn’t be complete without again mentioning the new book by Bil “Skywalker” Walker, HIGHS AND LOWS ON THE PACIFIC COAST TRAIL, a very different experience from hiking the AT.
This blog is primarily for topics related to THREE HUNDRED ZEROES, i.e.: hiking, amateur radio and heart surgery. If you have something you’d like to share with readers, feel free to mail it to me at: dennis@threehundredzeroes.com or just enter it at any of the “comment” links on this blog and I will receive it. I’m still anxious to hear from hiking heart surgery survivors. I know I’m not the only one.
Have a great New Year and hope that it is the best one yet. See you down the trail…
Author of: Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the
Heart on the Appalachian Trail
A non-fiction adventure travel
story on the Appalachian Trail
Finalist in the 2010 Next
Generation Indie Book Awards Contest
Available on Amazon.com,
Smashwords and
Kindle.