I'm in the paper today! For @timestravel I wrote about my journey hiking the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail — and how six months in the woods shifted my perspective on life and work.

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The Deliveroo economy keeps on evolving - I've just spotted an intermediary platform will pay you to set up a virgin Deliveroo account that it rents out for you.

DAY 10 - Today we hiked into Franklin, TN, passing the 100 mile marker on the way! After we showered, we hit the local brewery where we met a councillor who treated us to some welcome beers. He said the trail does a lot for the town - hikers arrive hungry and thirsty, which is great for business.

So now I have to choose between hoping they don't look me up again, self censoring my posts, or making my account private. It definitely felt more violating knowing they were watching all of my stuff on Instagram, but I am currently trying to be more active here so... bleh

(to be clear, there's nothing wrong with selling stuff to hikers or wanting to be paid for a ride, but this man had been pestering us all morning, knocking on our motel room (!) and trying to convince us the town shuttle the wasn't operating that day, and then became very aggressive when we said we had our own plans sorted)

This was our first "zero" - a day where zero AT miles are hiked. They aren't always as relaxing as they sound, because you are running around doing chores like laundry and resupplying food to get ready for the next stretch of hiking.

Trail magic is an interesting concept & I have lots of thoughts on it! In the South it was often religious groups doing it, as in this case. I never understood why people who can afford a six month break from daily life became targets for this charity… but I was grateful for the free food nonetheless!

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This was my first time hiking in the US and it was interesting comparing the outdoor culture with that of the UK. The wilderness is a lot more vast in the US, but the path we were hiking also had a lot of infrastructure. We'd often camp near backcountry shelters - here's one we stopped by that day.