The best part of thru hiking the Appalachian Trail this year was all the great people I met along the way.

Thru hikers Start, Rethinker, SiteSee, and Hometown on Mt. Katahdin, ME on Aug. 13, 2008.

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - -- Mark Twain

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends." - -- Walt Whitman