After Katahdin

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Imagine Living In The Woods For Five Or Six Months. No Job, No Worries. Now Imagine Being Thrust Back Into The 'Real' World To Try And Rebuild Your Life. Forced To Get A Job And Find A Place To Live. This Is The Reality Faced By Many Appalachian Trail Thru Hikers Upon Summiting Mount Katahdin. What Do You Do When You No Longer Have To Hike Everyday? In 2011 Chris "Cleanshave" Miller Had Finished His Appalachian Trail Thru Hike And Returned To His Hometown. Without An Apartment, With Very Little In The Way Of Savings He Quickly Found That Some Of The Most Difficult Hurdles Faced By A Thru Hiker Aren't Always On The Trail. Sometimes It's Readjusting To The World You Left Behind.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>"This book is a great diary of the hangover one can get after a life changing experience. I recommend it for those of you who, once in a while, escape the soul-numbing effect of being a worker bee and fly out of the hive. The author is a sojourner who seeks meaning outside the humdrum of "ya work, ya pay bills, ya work, ya pay bills....ya die". Personally, my favorite parts of this book are his dreams. I am a psychoanalyst at heart after all. One's dreams can be far more illuminating or interesting than one's reality." -<br/>J. Holland<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Lightning strikes the ground nearby and the loud crack of thunder follows instantaneously. Looking up into the dark angry sky I shout through the rain, "You want to kill me I'm right here!" -from<br/>Hiking the Appalachian Trail<br/><br/><br/>That is Chris Miller, also known as Cleanshave, the travel author best known for the story of his 2011 Appalachian Trail thru hike covered in his book<br/>Hiking the Appalachian Trail.<br/><br/>Chris "Cleanshave" Miller has also bicycle toured the East Coast Greenway to raise money for Meals on Wheels, jumped off the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas, taken the Polar Bear Plunge in Newport, RI, hiked Vermont's Long Trail from end to end and more recently cycled Adventure Cycling's Southern Tier on a fixed gear bicycle.<br/><br/>If you like low budget travel and adventure then Chris "Cleanshave" Miller is an author to consider.