Intro The Long Path is a 358 mile trail that extends, officially, from John Boyd Thacher State Park just west of Albany, NY down into “hill country”, then the Catskills, the Shawangunks, Orange County, and the Palisades of New Jersey before crossing the Hudson River via the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan, and finishing at […]

I was really feeling the collective fatigue from the year. I should have been cruising through early laps, but it was a deep, deep slog. I slowed down a bunch during the first night. The first lap in the dark I was still with Will and he had to alternate walking and running. His chest […]

“It will be objected that the book deals too much with mere appearances, with the surface of things, and fails to engage and reveal the patterns of unifying relationship which form the true underlying reality of existence. Here I must confess that I know nothing whatever about the true underlying reality, having never met any.” […]