About ten months ago I was sitting at my computer and I just had the thought, “I need to get outside more”. I dug up my old camping gear that I took to Salcantay, drove out to the desert, and pitched my tent. The tent was about the size of a coffin, but I sat in it for a few hours waiting to get tired, then I lay down in the bed. It was so uncomfortable that I drove home and slept in my own bed. The next day I went down the rabbit hole of camping gear and discovered that in the 14 years since I went to Peru, camping gear has gotten WAY better, mainly due to better materials. It seemed like many of the people in the videos were packing not just to camp, but to through-hike, a term I’d never heard before. The granddaddy of all through-hikes is the Appalachian Trail. I had heard about the Appalachian trail before. One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, wrote an incredible book about it. Maybe I should hike some of the Appalachian Trail! I started researching it and realized that I had…
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