Blue View - Time to Decide Clyde

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Blue View - Time to Decide Clyde

Over the past couple of months, I've been going on at length (or maybe ad nauseam?) about 'Great Adventures', and one of the big items on my bucket list - trekking one of the world's 'Great Hikes'. I listed the candidates in a couple of earlier blogs; hikes that qualified as a 'Great Hike' and that were also actually doable by Marcie and me.

Now we’ve done the research and there are no more issues to resolve. In the immortal words of Paul Simon in Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, “it's time to decide, Clyde”. (Or not, as I just discovered after looking up the lyrics. It most certainly is in my own shower version, however. Paul, feel free to add it...). So, which of the 'Great Hikes' will we be doing next year? Read on to find out.


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Blue View – The World's Greatest Hikes (Doable by Marcie and David)

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Blue View – The World's Greatest Hikes (Doable by Marcie and David)

Marcie has agreed to do ONE of the world's really great trails with me in the next year or two and I've been researching the possibilities. I’ve eliminated dozens of trails based on my totally arbitrary criteria of what constitutes a ‘Really Great Trail’. I’ve also pared the list down to those we might actually be able to complete. Here is a list of possibilities, beginning with the North American trails.

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Blue View – Great Adventures

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Blue View – Great Adventures

All my life, I've been enthralled by the world's great adventures: bicycling around the world, riding a motorcycle from the arctic to the antarctic; walking across the U.S.; climbing one of the great mountains. From an early age, I kept a list of the great adventures I aspired to. Some of them were ruled out rather quickly. For example, since I couldn't even make the starting roster of my 6th grade baseball team, I decided that becoming a professional ball player probably wasn't in the cards
While any number of items were added and removed from the list over the decades, three epic adventures were always there: sailing around the world on a sailboat; climbing one of the world's great mountains; and completing one of the great hikes…

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