The Penultimate Adventurer

Imagine walking the Appalachian Trail? Imagine walking the Appalachian trail at the age of sixty-eight? Imagine carrying what you needed in a sack flung over a shoulder? 

A grandmother did just that and now there's a book chronicling her exploits. 

Imagine traveling thousands of miles across the United States dragging along a leased Airstream? Imagine hoping to get the pulse of the country and divining a reason for how it all hangs a together even though we are a melting pot?

A well known author did that and wrote a book.

So I sit here and ponder what long distance feat is out there for me? Someone even walked the walk of Abraham and wrote a book.

Spain's Camino De Santiago will take a conditioned walker thirty-five to forty days. But unless your trip is unique a million other folks have walked the walk. No book here.

Of course you can write a mystery--it's been done. 

Then there's another grandmother , 72,  who walks the 500 km long Camino trail. She transforms her journal entries into a book.

Maybe I'll write about the adventures of an armchair adventurer,  after all I've been down the Nile and up Mt Everest several times.