If you’re lucky, throughout your lifelong journey, you’ll even discover new things that make you who you are. It was reassuring to see how far she had come as well as reflect on my own changes. I was able to recognize her thought process which included hopefulness, doubt, hesitation, and challenges when facing the unknown future and life on a day to day basis. We both graduated college in 2005, and I had really sheltered myself from people and the world. I didn’t think I’d be able to relate much to her aside for my love of hiking and the outdoors, but I found that her innocence and naivety matched my own at the time. As an ode to her major in Classics and a nod to Homer’s Odyssy, she took the trail name Odyssa and discovered that she is a traveler, a hiker, a devout Christian, and a lover of the woods and mountains. Through trails, trials, and tribulations, Jennifer didn’t find where she was going, but she did find who she was. Time on the trail would show her where to go next in life– or so she thought. As a recent college graduate, she had a world of possibilities ahead if her. Just those two points could make people shy away from the idea of doing any long hike. She had never done a lengthy thru hike and began the trail on her own. Starting in Spring atop Springer Mountain in Georgia and ending on Mount Katahdin in Maine, Jennifer hike the full 2,175* miles of the AT in four and a half months.
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