[pct-l] Fwd: Hiker-trash lifestyle and the Future...

[gary_schenk at verizon.net]

 Diane, you can live on the trail in the winter in SoCal, no problem. But you know that.

I know what you mean about the 401k. Those crooks who drove Hostess into bankruptcy stole a big chunk of my baker's pension. And they got the media to blame it on the bakery workers. Brilliant.

Gary
 

On 11/21/13, Diane Soini wrote:

For a long time now I've seen the handwriting on the wall. My mom 
tries to reassure me it'll all be okay, but I know better. People are 
actively trying to eliminate social security and the big money will 
certainly find a way to steal my 401K just when I need it. So ever 
since I read a story in the LA Times in the 90s about a 66 year old 
lady who lived on the PCT with her goat during the hiking season and 
lived with her goat in a trailer in the winter I figured that's my 
plan for retirement. Without the goat. Now that I've actually hiked 
the trail I know what a great retirement it will be. Yep, the trail 
in spring/summer/fall and Slab City or equivalent the rest of the 
time. I try to remind myself of this as much as I can because I still 
wake up in a panic now and then. I know I can't be useful to the work 
world forever. There has to be somewhere to go when I'm actual 
garbage to the regular world. Hiker trash is the best form of garbage.
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