April 22, 2014
It’s only taken me 3 weeks but I’ve finally figured out how to keep FIMBY readers informed of our progress. Each time we get to an area with wifi or cell access, which for us is approximately every 3–5 days, I will tweet and or instagram our location and trail miles completed.
All my Instagram updates go to FIMBY Facebook also. I hope to do this a couple times a week.
I started last Friday with our arrival at Fontana Dam shelter. This morning we arrived at Clingmans Dome, which I also tweeted/instagrammed. After a night off the trail hanging out with the Meyer family, doing laundry, and resupplying our food, we’ll be back on the trail tomorrow morning (today if you’re reading this from your e-mail subscription).
Some people have asked how to track our progress, in real time, since the production cycle of our video series is three weeks slower than our actual hike.
If you’d like to track our real time location, or close to real time location, you can use those status updates to place our progress on a map, if you like.
A few people have mentioned to me they are using our hike for geography lessons. I think that is so cool! I hope these updates will help you with that.
Here’s a few tools you might find useful for tracking our hike:
Other places to follow our progress:
Our video series is the story of our hike, which will include how-to’s and hiking help for other families and individuals. We’ll start filming the how-to’s next month once we really know what we’re doing. This month we’ve been filming the “first-month” experiences of being on the trail.
That’s all I can think of for now. I miss the ease of communication, and writing and sharing I have from home, but I love the distance from social media I have on the trail. I feel very grounded, very present and attuned to physical living. I like it, most days :)
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Misti on April 22, 2014, 12:13 p.m.
Here's also a helpful shelter listing: http://tnlandforms.us/at/ for those who are following along.