Guru Hikes

So this is me:

I have many wonderful adventures to come, but I think I would like to start with where I came from. I was brought up in the backwoods of Tennessee in a town with more cows than people and where not too many people venture very far from home. I wanted to. I wanted to travel the world. I didn’t grow up with a whole lot, but we always seemed to make do. My brothers and I all received full scholarships to college and made it out of our small town. In college, I was able to travel for a month in Ecuador taking a tropical Botany course. The day after I graduated college I was in Ireland, where I backpacked solo for a month, then visited London, Rome, and Barcelona. I have lived out of my car while visiting most of the National Parks and National Forests in the US. Most recently, I finished a solo thru hike of the Appalachian Trail Southbound. I have always called the mountains of Tennessee home, but that has never stopped me from exploring the world.

These are just a few of the trips I have sent myself on, and I should have time to go into more detail about them as time progresses. My next adventure awaits, though, as I will be leaving November 29th to Backpack Southeast Asia for 5 months.

I will semi-regularly blogging about my journey, my life, how I afford this lifestyle, my vegi diet, my gear, and how I found my inner happy. My Youtube contains daily videos of my Appalachian Trail thru hike as well as gear reviews. My Instagram contains radom life updates as well as a couple of pretty pictures I took. Links to both can be found at the top of the page. Hope you will follow along with what is to come!

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust