Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #2368 – April 7, 2022

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Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot.

—BILL BRYSON, A Walk in the Woods, Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, 1998

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1628 – March 28, 2020

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What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.

—BILL BRYSON, A Walk in the Woods, Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, 1998

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #1241 – March 7, 2019

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I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

—BILL BRYSON, Neither Here Nor There, 2001

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #966- June 5, 2018

. . . it was really [Myron] Avery’s [Appalachian] trail. He mapped it out, bullied and cajoled clubs into producing volunteer crews, and personally superintended the construction of hundreds of miles of path. He extended its planned length of 1,200 miles to well over 2,000, and before it was finished he had walked every inch of it. In under seven years, using volunteer labor, he built a 2,000 mile trail through mountain wilderness. Armies have done less.

—BILL BRYSON, Anglo-American Humor Writer, 1951-

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #885- March 16, 2018

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Nearly everyone I talked to has some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head or dripping blood from an armless sleeve and whispering in a hoarse voice, ‘Bear!’ before sinking into a troubled unconsciousness.

—BILL BRYSON, A Walk in the Woods, Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, 1998

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #845- Feb 4, 2018

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I hadn’t asked him why he wanted to come [hike the Appalachian Trail]. Katz was the one person I knew on earth who might be on the run from guys with names like Julio and Mr. Big. Anyway, I didn’t care. I wasn’t going to have to walk alone.

—BILL BRYSON, A Walk in the Woods, Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, 1998

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #717 – Sept 29, 2017

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What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

—BILL BRYSON, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, 1991

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #553 – April 18, 2017

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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

—BILL BRYSON, Anglo-American Humor Writer, 1951-

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #481 – Feb 5, 2017

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If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment—a tent, sleeping bag—but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

—BILL BRYSON, Anglo-American Humor Writer, 1951-

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Jim Schmid’s Trail Quote of the Day #24 – November 6, 2015

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Mostly what the Forest Service does is build roads. There are 378,000 miles of road in America’s national forests…eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system.

—BILL BRYSON, A Walk in the Woods, 1998

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