On a recent snowed-in lazy day, I plopped myself on the floor in front of my shelf full of scrapbooks and started flipping through some memories. Three of the scrapbooks contained keepsakes from my six-month Appalachian Trail thru-hike, including eighteen postcards I'd mailed to my parents in Rhode Island as I walked north from Georgia to Maine. While I did keep a daily journal, which you can peruse on my Hiking Writer website if you'd like, along with a sampling of the hundreds of photos I snapped along the way, I'm so glad my folks hung onto these postcards. Postcards limit you, of course, to what you can squeeze into less than a 4x6-inch space, so you can wax poetic for only so long. Not that my postcards are poetic at all, but reading those snippets is a fun way to re-live an adventure years later. I hope you'll enjoy this postcard journey of my A.T. experience and some of the other random memories these pictorial keepsakes conjure up.
Hiking the Appalachian Trail: A Story in Postcards
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