Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day 6 “Trip and Fall”

Today is my 36th birthday so hopefully all of the forest animals will offer to carry my packs for the day!
I climb out of my tent to check the stick at the waters edge to see the water had dropped over two feet, what a difference that would have made yesterday. The river was rushing [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day 5 “Water Slogging”

The packs feel much better today after a few alterations and a few less pounds. As I walk through the woods taking in the beauty I wonder what lay ahead what condition the trail is in after the rain. The terrain was quickly changing from higher grassy areas to “Green Tunnels”. We kept passing small [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day 3 and 4 “Rain”

I laid in my tent awake waiting for a hint of morning light wondering about the weather and Hurricane Ida. I was hoping I would be able to make it to the next camp before the rain came.
When I got up Greg (my neighbor) was already packing his campsite up. Greg told me the storm [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day Two Hurricane Lake

Day Two November 8th, 2009 Hurricane Lake
It was a long night, Diego got upset a few times about something outside, his low rumbling growl growing to a snarl and then he let out a few nasty barks. Whats out there? Then a crash in the bushes within 100ft, it sounded big. I listened closely for [...]

Florida Trail Thru-Hike Day One “Torture”

My Brother, Nick and my nephew Ian drove me the two and a half hour drive from his house in Alabama to the trail head at the Alabama-Florida state line, after navigating our way around a washed out road we were on a single lane red clay forest road in his white (now two-tone with [...]

Thru-Hiking The Florida Trail

I have been struggling with the inevitable looming lay-off and how to go about dealing with it. Do I do the so called “responsible thing” and look for a “job” ? Do I do the “responsible thing” to myself and pursue my passion for Photography and exploring Florida?  I’ve decided to go for broke spend [...]