[pct-l] holiday visits

            Year-end holiday visits bring brothers, sisters, and in-laws who 
have lifestyles and life values built around how-much, how-big, how-many, 
how-important, the usual. They know, however, that things are somewhat 
different around my modest homeplace where they'll find climbing and 
backpacking equipment situated in unique places, with books and authors with 
names of Abbey, Thoreau, Muir, Clyde resting about. They remember when I " 
just left great job offers after college " and went " walking something 
called the Appalachian Trail " for 6 months " and "no one actually
knew where he was ". Then, some 12 years later, " with a wife and 2 children 
ages 8 and 10, actually went out west somewhere for 2 months and hiked around 
in the Sierra Mountains with his children and wife, sometimes not letting 
anyone know where they were for weeks! " But worse than any of those things, 
rumors have been heard that I am " contemplating seriously quitting a great 
job and going on another hike for 5 months......." . Voices become hushed 
when the subject comes up.... Happy Holidays.
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