-Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote).
It took longer to prepare to hike the Appalachian Trail than to actually hike it.
My best step in preparation was to join a listserve (remember those?) of veteran AT hikers or those preparing to hike like me.
I slowly created this list of items I planned on taking:
With eagerness, I researched and price-compared and waited for sales (loved CampMor and Sierra Trading Post!)
Arriving within days of each other, my one-man tent, sleeping bag, and headlamp all came. I set up the tent in my bedroom and slept in it and the sleeping bag while wearing my headlamp!
I also started to plan out food. The Trail goes through some towns with decent grocery stores, and other towns, well, your best bet is to have a box of food shipped to the post office. After a long visit to Sam's Club, I packed up a whole bunch of food boxes and left them with my parents, and a list similar to this:
The die was cast (at least, a few hundred dollars had been spent).
The school year ended early June, and it was time.
I drove to my parent's house in Tennessee (at the time) to leave my car and went to bed planning on boarding a Greyhound bus to Maine early the next morning...
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