The Plan

ZAN: Hi my name is Zan. I’m 21 and that’s me on the right.
MIKE: My name is Mike and I’m an alcoholic.
ZAN: Mike your meeting is next Wednesday. This is our blog post.
MIKE: Oh…and I’m also 21.

MIKE AND ZAN: Sometime during our obligatory stint at university we read a book. As if three years of an Arts degree wasn't enough of a waste of time, within its pages we found another way to avoid our meaningful entry into society. Most Aussies spend a few months abroad at some stage in their early 20's but rather than join the masses pulling beers in London we have decided to be a little different…

6 months, 2,174 miles, 14 states, 2 hikers and one trail. And we are going to walk the whole thing. The Appalachian Trail. We decided that if Bill Bryson could do it and flog 10,000 copies of his book (A Walk in the Woods) so could we.

Since its conception eighty years ago, it has tortured thousands of hikers. We plan to start at Springer Mountain, Georgia in March and finish at Mount Katahdin, Maine in early September.