Pickensville, AL to Houston, MS Total Miles: 2605 Last night as I was crawling into my tent to get some reading in before bed I hear someone outside say, “Hey, you’re not asleep are you?” When I get out to investigate I’m greeted by my two camp neighbors who ask if I’d like to come […]
Author: james
Day 47 – 77 Miles
Providence, AL to Pickensville, AL Total Miles: 2527 Editors note: I’ve tried my very hardest over the last 47 days to try and maintain some semblance of family friendliness to my writing, mainly keeping the F-bombs to a bare minimum, but that’s just not the way I talk in real life. It’s been pointed out […]
Day 47 – 61 Miles
Jackson, AL to Providence, AL Total Miles: 2450 I woke up this morning at 6:30 and I really did not want to get out of bed. After yesterdays toils I was not looking forward to another day of the same and I tried every argument I could think of to convince myself to just lay […]
Day 46 – 64 Miles
Range, AL to Jackson, AL Total Miles: 2389 It got pretty chilly again last night and I woke up to my tent covered in heavy sprinkling of morning dew. When I start getting my things ready my tent is usually the first thing to get loaded up but seeing as it was all wet I […]
Day 46 – 62 Miles
Milton, FL to Range, AL Total Miles: 2325 I woke up this morning and it was cold and it took a lot of willpower to heave myself out of my sleeping bag. Now the actual temperature was only like 60 but after the last month of Florida heat it felt like the freaking arctic to […]
Day 45 – 52 Miles
Destin, FL to Milton, FL Total Miles: 2263 Nothing particularly interesting happened last night. After my haircut and a few beers at the nearest bar I just laid in my tent and read all evening. The weather was cool so, for once, I wasn’t sweating my ass off and my campsite was pretty close to […]
Day 44 – 44 Miles
Panama City Beach, FL to Destin, FL Total Miles: 2212 Yesterday evening I’m sitting at my camp cooking dinner, parmesan rotini with pepper fried spam, when my camp neighbor walks up. He’s this really young looking guy, maybe 19 or so, and he’s camping out with a bunch of his equally young looking friends. He […]
Day 43 – 71 Miles
Apalachicola, FL to Panama City Beach, FL Total Miles: 2168 So yesterday didn’t turn into quite the barrel of sunshine that I thought it would be. I had planned on camping in one of the city parks which I was assured by my new friend Kevin was totally ok. I mentioned this a little later […]
Day 42 – 42 Miles
Sopchoppy, FL to Apalachicola, FL Total Miles: 2097 Last night brought another battle with the rain. When I went to sleep there was only a 10% chance of rain late at night so, naturally, I left the fly off my tent. Well I woke up about 1:00AM to a few pitiful little drops of water […]
Day 41 – 62 Miles
Perry, FL to Sopchoppy, FL Total Miles: 2055 Broke 2000 miles today!!! Last night around 1:00 AM I was woken up from a sound sleep to the tiniest splash of water hitting my face though the mesh of my tent. Google had warned me that there was a 15% chance of rain but I ignored […]