Wanderlust
February 21, 2008
Rebecca Solnit writes that the mind functions best at 3 mph. I must concede, for it seems to be failing me at rest in a hotel room in Stockton CA. As an actor on tour I spend most of my waking day on a bus watching landscape pass while wrestling with whether I am seeing the world or avoiding it altogether. As I prepare to hike the Appalachian Trail, all 2175 miles from Georgia to Maine, I am faced with the same ambiguity of purpose. Fortunately wanderlust propells me into this adventure and renders its motive irrelevant. This blog will be a point of reference as I travel, containing trail updates, reflections and progress both geographic and financial. Thank you in advance for your support even if it was only attending to this paragraph. Now go change the world.
A Clear Path 
March 31, 2008 at 11:27 pm
John, Best wishes for your journey on the AT. I’ve know your grandfather since my days at Brookfield Zoo in the 1980s. He and Susan are the reason we are happily living in Saluda for the last ten years.
April 6, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I think this is amazing,I did not know so many people knew about Scleroderma,My father past away in 1991 with this,I’m not real educated about it but i know he had Crest syndrome,I know he had lived with it for 11 years and it took forever before Doctors figured out what was wrong,I was 11 when my father past away and I remember it was so hard to set here everyday and watch him go through what he did,it was so sad.I believe he past away because the Scleroderma had caused his kidney’s to fail and I believe his heart.But I an so happy to see that so many people do know about it and is trying to help find a cure,it is a devastating desease and it is devastating to watch someone you love be tortured by it.