Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you. ~ Colin Fletcher

Remembering My Appalachian Trail Hike

So I had a goal for my time off for medical leave, I wanted to do another book. Unfortunately that fell off, but another opportunity presented itself. So to celebrate the 10th anniversary of publishing my book Appalachian Trail Happiness I’m publishing an audio version of the book. Amazon is beta testing an AI conversion of your print book. So I’ve just spent the last three days learning that system and editing the audio book, it’s a computer generated narrator not my voice. I just hit publish and so it will go live in the next three days. Listening and editing my book brought a lot of things to mind.

I need to first apologize to my friend Rich who hounded me for this for years, sorry it took so long.

Most of all, holy shit I miss the guys pictured above and my time on the trail. Reliving my months on the trail was wonderful, every fiber of me is screaming right now to get back on the trail, but that will have to wait given current realities.

Something that always happens when you re-edit a published text is you see all of the errors. I mean hell, me, six other readers and an edit by an editor and there’s still so many little errors.

Finally, man am I proud of this book. It’s a really good book, well written, interesting and there’s some great advice in it. I also, going through it, know all of the great stories that aren’t in there and you really should be buying me a pizza and asking for those stories.

Have a happy day my friends, I’ll put out another post after the audio book is published, listed and available. It will be available both on Amazon and Audible.

Rev Kane