A Spiritual Passage
A Spiritual Passage by Rand Timmerman, Esq. A couple of older men, brothers, agree to hike the Appalachian Trail together. One of the brothers, Ron, is a recent and grieving widower, who appears to see the challenge of it as healing. The other brother, Rand, who authors the memoir, doesn't really take it all quite seriously though he does agree to head off with his bad knee and lack of mental preparation, perhaps as a way of assisting his brother, and himself in a quest for healing of his own. From that first chapter on, we follow the brothers along the trail, from mile marker to mile marker, camp to motel, back home for breaks and onward through rain, snow, mud and stony fields. Along the way they meet a variety of other hikers, most of whom travel the trail known only by a hiking moniker, like “Wonder Woman,” “Ozzie” and” Commander;” they fall and get hurt, or hike on and get soaked by rain; they camp in the woods or make their way to a cheap motel. They argue, laugh, fa...
