blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Long-distance backpacker Alison “Blissful Hiker” Young has logged more than 14,000 miles across six continents, tackling iconic routes such as New Zealand’s Te Araroa, Europe’s Pyrenean Haute Route, South Africa’s Drakensberg Traverse, Nepal’s Great Himalayan Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail in the United States.
An award-winning professional musician and syndicated American Public Media host, Alison approaches storytelling through a deeply attuned ear. Her series of intimate personal essays — coupled with field recordings gathered on trail — trace a path of self-discovery as a middle-aged, titanium-reinforced cancer thriver. They reveal the often unglamorous but essential truths of empowerment, inviting listeners to find the courage to blaze their own trails on the journey we call life.
blissful hiker ❤︎ inspiring you to hike your own hike
Ten Things I Learned While Long Distance Backpacking Vol. 3
This week, Blissful Hiker completes the list of ten lessons from the trail that are helping her now.
In this episode:
7) :38 Everything changes “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
8) 1:50 You will never pass this way again "Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip."
9) 3:26 Let go and forgive "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
10) 5:41 You are stronger than you think you are "If I waited for perfection, I’d never write a word."
MUSIC: Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel Lasala and Milongs sin palabras by Astor Pizzolla as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano
