The Timpone's are running a little bit late, so I have time for a few words before we begin our 3-day drive to Baxter State Park, Maine. Three days to get there, five-six months to get home.
I am nervous but also very excited about the life change I am making right now. This is the longest I will have ever been away from my family and friends. This seems like a bigger deal than going to college, study abroad, etc.
I don't really have any really beautiful, introspective, words of wisdom; my main thought pattern right now is, You absolutely cannot drop out any time soon. There will be about three opportunities to leave the trail in the next couple of weeks, when the Timpone's are still in Maine. Those three times, I could just give up. I would have a ride home. It would be easy.
After that, Connor and I are pretty much stuck, short of booking a flight home.
Again, I am nervous but also very excited. This is the opportunity of a lifetime, something I didn't think I would be able to do until very much later in life.
In fact I don't feel like everything has set in yet. It probably will in about four days, when I feel like I am about to die, hiking up Katahdin. Or, more optimistically, when I feel like I'm on top of the world, at the start of the Appalachian Trail.
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