Audrey Shoop- Topic of Choice 2

 As we learn and hear more about the Appalachian Trail in class, I find myself drawn to the call of a Sacred Journey. I have always been interested in thru-hiking and things like the AT but always told I was incapable due to physical and mental limitations. But the call of the wild has grown stronger than other people's doubts and so my sister and I have begun to devise a plan for summer 2024 to hike as much of the trail as we possibly can. I feel like I need that soul searching and connection to nature before I go out on my own and move to a large city to pursue my career. This pull or call for a sacred journey really shows me first hand why all of these people go out year after year to do stuff like this. I think just as hikers say, I will not understand fully until I have done it myself, but I am starting to get the smallest inkling of the magic that lives within this trail and other pilgrimages. 

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