Heart and Sole

Feet tread the good earth and the Spirit soars.
Step out. Discover your path.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

November flowers - a color riot

"Florida or Bust" - Day 44 Today I was deep in the heart of rural south central Alabama. The only town I passed through was...

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Beautiful Rural Butler Mill Road and a close encounter with a Copperhead

Tree-lined, Spanish moss festooned Butler Mill Road. It was a dirt road when first designated as the ECT/GET route, but paving it has tak...

Sunday, November 8, 2015

The Pike Road Natural Trail and the walk of a thousand ponds

"Florida or Bust" - Days 37 to 42 I searched the internet for bike paths or greenways through the city of Montgomery, Al...

Friday, October 30, 2015

The Coosa Trail - Intense

Follow the yellow blazes through this loblolly plantation, because the blazes are your guide.. In places like this there was no detectabl...

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Finished the Pinhoti Trail

"Florida or Bust" - Days 32, 33, and 34 Big milestone! I've now hiked the Pinhoti Trail end-to-end, all 335 miles of it...

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PJ Wetzel - Long Distance Hiker, Big Picture thinker, Retired NASA Earth Scientist, Grandpa

PJ Wetzel: Welcome. This site is about traveling the natural way—on foot.

“…the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours—as the swinging of dumb-bells or chairs; but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day."

— Henry David Thoreau

Our compulsion to walk, to seek out new horizons, is the defining characteristic of our species. We are the ape who left the trees to explore the world. Walking upright led to tool use, agriculture, community, and technology. Sadly, with each new step, we are straying further from the sustainable ways of our ancestors.

Walking leaves minimal impact. Today, most of us travel in machines, swarming over the land, not caring. This blog is meant as a reminder, a warning, and a call to return to a way of balanced living that is in harmony with our world.

Although hike-related posts are the majority, there's also a generous sprinkling of what used to be called 'Natural Philosophy'. I'm an obsessive 'Big Picture Thinker.' For me this is just another way of Pathfinding: along the Greatest Path of all!!!

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