Wild Indeed

What lovely ladies at a lovely lunch meeting. We had a very lively discussion about  - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Kelly thanks for being such a great host. 

Personally, I feel like our Kelly J could take the same PCT hike and be ever so much better prepared. In fact Kelly was in shock at Cheryl Strayed's unpreparedness.  But for a 22 year-old in such distress - it was an amazing story. The book was published in March 2013.

Cheryl Strayed, ten days into the Pacific Crest Trail in June 1995.

 We felt the pain and suffering of physical aspects of the trail.  

We all cried when she described her mother's passing. Truthfully we had difficulty talking about the horse scene. We were warmed by the camaraderie on the trail. And again horrified at her lack of planning for provisions and such.
But amazed at her emotional growth during the hike.

Below see some reviews and quotes about the book:

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe “and built her back up again.

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail ....... She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea, vague .....But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.

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Strayed pushed herself on a 1,100-mile hike for which she was woefully unprepared. Her backpack, "Monster," is so heavy she can barely lift it. Her too-tight boots cause half of her toenails to pop off. Psychically, she's in worse shape. Left reeling by her mother's death from cancer, followed by the painful separation from the man she married at 19, Strayed was turned on to heroin by one of her lovers. As she sets off on her hike, there are track marks on her ankle.

...next blog entry announces the new book selection