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A Walk in the Woods: Katie Conway

Posted At : August 7, 2008 1:00 AM
Related Categories: Outdoors,Personal Narratives

Taken from A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, published by Broadway Books

Read by Katie Conway, "vice president of the Alaska Women's Environmental Network, a local nonprofit of women inspired by nature." Born and raised in Alaska, Katie divides her time between working for the Alaska State Legislature and writing her Masters thesis. It's been a busy summer -- she's hoping to sometime very soon experience the simplicity of a wilderness escape just like the one in this piece.  

Bill Bryson hiked the Appalachian Trail and wrote about it in A Walk in the Woods:

‘Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. ...

You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties.... All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.

There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. ...

Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don't think, "Hey, I did sixteen miles today," any more than you think, "Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today." It's just what you do.'


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