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.