In about the middle of the book, Bryson and his buddy go into the town of Gatlinburg Tennessee. They have been hiking for several weeks, and just left Great Smokey Mountain National Park. While in the town, they decide to get something to eat, then go into a store because Katz needs a strap for his backpack. There, Bryson comes upon a map of the entire Applacian Trail. He notices where they are now in comparison to the rest of the trial. They have only completed a tiny amount of the entire trail. Then Bryson makes the comment "One thing was obvious. We were never going to walk to Maine".(pg 105) This part of the book moved me because for the first time Bryson admits that they will not be completing the entire trail. I feel upset because I really want them to complete the trail, but at the same time I agree with them. I knew that they were not moving fast enough to make the seasons coordinate with their hiking. It was ineresting to think about how many experinces they had already went through, yet they had only completed a fraction of the trial.
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