From dream to reality

Happy New Year!  We spent last night with great friends, and now we've been slowly waking up this morning.  Over the last couple of days, I've been going over our AT posts and fixing some broken picture links, adding tags, etc. and I came across this picture.  It was taken just outside of Standing Bear Farm, north of Interstate 40.  In 2004, we were on I-40, heading home to Nashville from a wedding in Columbia, South Carolina and decided to locate the AT on the way.  We had just started talking about hiking it at that time, and I was still placating my wife's dreams with my "yeah, right" mentality.  Roxanne added the picture to a scrapbook that she made for our first anniversary, before our first digital camera!

So here we were, five years later - Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers living a dream.