Status Updates From Walking with Spring

An ant hill looks like a good place for a weary hiker to sit and rest, but surely isn't.

I felt a little lonesome, so near and yet so far from everybody.

It is said that more flower species are found in the Smokies than in any other area of the same size on earth.

Inevitably, a long-distance hiker must choose between traveling light and not traveling at all.

The store lady offered me a newspaper to read, the first I had seen in nearly two weeks. I sat on a bench by the potbellied stove to read it but put it aside after scarcely a glance. the doings of the outside world no longer interested me.

Hiking had become an exquisite kind of torture.