Waiting Twenty Years: Hiking on The Appalachian Trail for the First Time at Sixty-Three: Updated 2025 With Video for eBook Version

Sometimes we have to wait and wait and wait for what we want, don't we?This updated version of "Waiting Twenty Years: Hiking on The Appalachian Trail for the First Time at Sixty-Three", includes a video featuring a general facsimile of the events which delayed this author for several decades, from pursuing his dream of hiking on The Appalachian Trail, not to mention many other goals, sometimes said, even, to be "dreams".Sometimes we have to wait and wait and wait for what we want, don't we?For instance, this author had hoped to hike The Appalachian Trail when he was forty-three.However, his earlier time as a jogger and parachute jumper had taken a toll on his knees, and his neck was also aching.Over a span of time, he needed forty sessions of physical therapy for those knees, and twenty more for his neck.But he had no insurance for this physical therapy. Years and years later, he finally was able to afford physical therapy. Ironically, the therapy was provided in part by someone who became a physical therapist after having been thrown from a horse, and then having needed physical therapy themselves, upon which they decided to become a physical therapist to pass along what they had learned from life's challenges.There were other health issues too.Each needed to be worked through, one by one....So finally, after twenty years, he did do his first hike on The Appalachian Trail, in 2024, when it was only 35 degrees out.... Perhaps to reminisce about his Minnesota childhood, when children started riding their bicycles again, in short sleeves, when the weather warmed to a balmy 20 degrees.So, as they say, "It ain't over till it's over"? Read more