I have finally arrived home and picked up my dog from the sitters! (Appalachian Trail thru hike)
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2024
- Welcome to the last and final day of trail. I have landed in Utah where I will be starting the next season of my life. Sad to not be in California for the time being but loads of new hiking plus snowboarding in my future. I also got to pick up my dog! I missed him so much on trail and he missed me! Thank you for everyone’s countless amount of support! We both thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Enjoy!!!
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Gadget I have followed you from your first day on the trail. I am very happy you completed the trail and are now home with your Pup. I know you are happy to be back with him and he is even more over joyed that you are back. Think of how he must have felt you left him in a strange place and have been gone for 6 months. Him seeing you again was awesome.
Take each day one at a time. You will get back to life. Just don't for get to go to the mountains take Theo with you he may enjoy the hike. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
First off I love your pup. He was definitely overjoyed to see you and I know from experience how that can feel. Sorry you are experiencing the post trail blues that so many do. The trail is a simple life with minimal decisions or options and adjusting to off trail is stressful and exiguous. You will get more at easy but you will miss the trail & your Tramily so you might give them a call they probably would enjoy hearing your voice. If clean sleep in your same clothes you did on trail and go go bed at the same time you did on trail for awhile. Gadget you hiked close to 2200 miles … you will get through this time period. Love you 😘❤
nice to go away but always nice to come home thanks for taking me along on your hike
Thanks for sharing your post-hike ups and downs. I can imagine coming off trail and being away from your great tramily has got to be incredibly hard! The real world can be completely overwhelmingly. Soooo happy to see you reunited with Theo though😊
and getting a lot of kisses from him
Wow! Awesome return home! I wish you well and hopefully you will bring us on another adventure!!🥰🐾🐾⛺️🥾🥾❤️
Congratulations on being back home. What a great dog. Enjoy being back home
As much as I have enjoyed watching your and your tramilies adventure, I really appreciate your last week to the summit and after vlog! I was hoping to see how hiking the AT impacts oneself (good or bad) and your POV is unique , heartfelt, and entertaining! Best of luck to you!
I have a video coming out very soon that showcases what you go through mentally after trail:) I want to be honest with everyone and I hope you enjoy
Glad you made it home safe and sound. I can't imagine how happy your pup was to see you. The interesting thing about dogs, they have no concept of time when it comes to people they love. Hope you get to ease back into non-trail life. Thanks again for sharing your adventure with us.
Thank you for allowing us to follow on your journey
Hi Gadget, I'm sure readjusting is hard. But you can and will do great, just take it slow. Can't wait to see your next adventure. As always, be safe and happy hiking❤
He is so adorable. It would be so hard being in the real world after 6 months in the woods. Sass went back on trail,
I did too 🤭🤫
@@WanderingGadget you went on trail after the Appalachian Trail? We just haven't seen the videos yet ?
It will be a hard transition, but you'll do ok. If you need to go for a hike, just head to the mountains for a little. Get some good rest. Your dog is so sweet. Safe travels.
Gadget, why can I picture you walking to and walking thru the car wash with your pack? That is what popped into my mind when you said you would rather walk.
Melissa, your life has changed, and it will never be the same. Before my first hike I was a total adrenaline junkie, and I didn't do anything unless I was on the edge. I had a little trouble adjusting to the real world when I came back just like you are. Suddenly I was calm, calculated and realized that there are no longer big, huge problems to overcome, just small little quiet ones that were solved with minimal thinking. Realize what you have learned this summer and how monumental your accomplishment is, and you will never have big problems again. Other problems will crop up, but they will be weird, easy, but weird. When you are trying to explain what the trail was like or what each day was like to your friends and family but all they understand is you were out in the sunshine walking on this beautiful flat, groomed trail through the woods but you're explaining Wildcat. I had become depressed because no one understood..............trust me, they never will. Only another hiker understands. When that happens, and it will, call Sass or Soap. Just carry on a normal conversation with them and in just 10 minutes your world will be so familiar and all sunshine. You will think of the trail EVERY DAY! It will never leave you...........and that's a good thing!
I hope that you live a wonderful and happy life, and the trail will assure that you do.
Hike safe, Hike strong, Have fun!
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Nice video, so let's keep on hiking 😊,
Utah? I would love the back story to how you got there from Southern California. I bet there's culture shock not only from your finished hike but to how different life is in Utah from California. I am really enjoying these aftermath Vlogs.
i was wondering, when you first got to Utah I could have sworn that the woman on the left of the 3 was Just Hikes who did the trail in '23, but then I remembered she was from Georgia or Tennessee so I realized it couldn't be her.
Thank you so much for the journey Air Jordan ever minute
Gadget there are jobs that can put you back in the mountains. The trail is talking to you calling you back. You may have found what you went on the trail for.
Why did I think you were from California? I have no idea. But welcome home to Utah! Just like on the trail, you will adapt to handle life's problems. You did it when you were falling apart in New Hampshire and you'll do it again in Utah. I have confidence in your ability to adapt and thrive. Best wishes to you!
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I am from cali:) just starting a new fresh life in Utah after trail:)
@@WanderingGadget , congrats! So…stupidity doesn’t run as deep as I thought for California! 🤣
@@kmichaelp4508 hahah not at all
@@WanderingGadget 😆😂😂😂😂 I knew you had it in ya
I really loved following your journey! Helped me from being so homesick for the AT! Btw, is your dog a kelpie?
@@TedHeistman yes! He is! Such a cute dog
Welcome home. I have trouble leaving my dogs for a week, so I know I could not leave for months. They would think I died and that would bother me too much.
I can understand a bit, having to stay in a rehab facility for six months after Guillain Barre hit me suddenly. Six months is a very long time to be out of your normal. Your pup is beautiful and they never forget you!!! Godspeed my friend!!✌️🙂💚
My wife had GBS too. What rough time
@@dougthebigdp314 I hope she is doing ok. It is a rough time… it has been the fight of my life…✌️🙂❤️
@@tresannrn8454 She got it 15ish years ago, did the whole IVIG for awhile and decided it really wasn't working out, so she stopped and is around 85% most of the time. Can't get too stressed or it gets worse. Hope you are getting better and it doesn't turn Chronic,
Glad you're home and I am so happy for your dog. 😉❤ I don't know why, but I thought you lived in California. 🤔
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I think she at several points said she was from someplace like Riverside in the Valley. I am wondering how Utah became home too
She was born and raised in California but moved to Utah a bit before hiking! -gadgets sister 😊
@@rebeccalee9132 Thank you so much for responding. I appreciate it.
@@rebeccalee9132 , congrats to you and her😊 now can you both not vote as a Californian?
You need to find you a place off grid in those Appalachian Mountains
oh ya forgot about coming home to your pup
The transition from thru hike back to "normal" life has a lot of the same effects of the culture shock from moving to a new country, coming back from deployment, etc.. In this case, a lot of folks find that going camping/hiking/backpacking on the weekends, to help ease that transition. But the struggle is real.
What a 'cool' dog, and so happy to see you. Here are a couple of quotes I want to share: 1). "What must we have done in the distant past to deserve dogs? There is a certain 'magic' they bring into our lives which can be had in no other way - they truly are a gift for which we have no complete explanation."(Unknown); 2). "When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound, in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief; I come into the presence of still water and I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."(Wendell Berry). Be well, stay safe. 🥾