#BookishTravels with @adivineeternity: Take a hike!

Hello! Welcome back to Bookish Travels. I'm continuing to be your host for this delightful trip to all the bookish corners of the world. Each week, I'll feature a book, a place, a library or bookstore, or basically anything else of my choosing for your armchair traveling pleasures.

This week, we're going to take a look at a place I want to go thanks to a book I read. While technically it is Hogwarts because it's basically always Hogwarts, that is not the topic of this post. In fact, this is from a vastly different type of adventure than anything Harry and his friends experienced in their six years at Hogwarts. It's a little closer to their seventh year, but not really since nobody was on the run from evil people wanting to kill them.

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Introducing the Appalachian Trail, inspiration for multiple travel memoirs over the last few decades. The most famous of these, perhaps, is A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

I first read this book when I was 17 and a senior in high school. What caught my attention the most was the juxtaposition of good-hearted humor on Bryson's part - not surprising considering it's Bill Bryson - alongside a healthy dose of history about the trail itself. I could envision myself walking along the trail with him and ever since, I've wanted to hike it.

Yes, I am well aware that being braced by a sudden desire to hike a 2,180-mile trail for no other reason then Bill Bryson did it and it was funny is utterly insane. I am also aware that my current fitness level is equivalent to an obese greyhound and that I pant going up the stairs to catch the train every day for work. This level of self-awareness is something I've worked hard to attain throughout my life. That doesn't mean I couldn't do a couple of shorter hikes along some of the easier segments.

What you may not realize is that NYC is actually within very easy reach of a portion of the trail, which passes just a few dozen miles to the north of the city. I keep thinking it'd make for a fantastic day trip to be able to walk part of the world-famous trail with my camera in-hand, even though it's not a part that Bill Bryson got to experience in his book.

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