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Sunrise at Gulf Islands National Seashore, March 3, 2011….18 miles left until we finished.
Finished! We walked through Florida!
On top of Fort Pickens
How was this a year ago? It seems like closer than that. While the Appalachian Trail seems light years away now, I think the Florida Trail seems closer because of our closer relationship with Florida itself. While I am glad to be in Texas again, I sometimes wish I had done more exploring and had gotten to know Florida more intimately, exploring its other locales.
Despite the road walks, I do recommend hiking this trail. It’s a ‘quick’ trail, it’s flat and it offers up habitats that many people don’t get to see or appreciate. It is a different mindset and I’m hoping that with the book I am writing about our hike on the Florida Trail that I can sway more people to hike the trail. Not only that, I want the trail to become better. It has a vast amount of potential and it can only get better if people are out there appreciating it.
I hope we have more long distance trails for us in the future, even if we are a few decades older when that happens. Long distance trails are challenging in so many ways but worth it when all is said and done.
Kyle says:
This is giving me a big itch to get back out there…
March 3, 2012, 1:33 pmMom says:
Where does the time go?
March 6, 2012, 4:40 pmPatrice says:
Time does fly! What an awesome experience that you can look back on!
You need to do a long-distance trail this year to keep your 1-trail-per-year trend going. Didn’t you talk about doing the Lone Star?
March 31, 2012, 9:10 pm