![]() ![]() (I don't know that one, says Mary-Ellen, I thought I knew them all.) And in real life? We could ask Mary-Ellen, except one thing we know for sure about Mary-Ellen is she's not called Mary-Ellen, else she'd have sued Bryson's ass off by now. Except in the book, where he says 'Cunnilingus'. When asked his star-sign by the tiresome Mary-Ellen (played by Kristen Schaal), Bryson's companion Stephen Katz (played by Nick Nolte) says 'Gemini'. Oddly, none of my own long-distance jaunts has been made into a movie with Robert Redford as me, married to Emma Thompson. 'A little voice in my head said: "Sounds neat! let's do it!".' To grab a gun and join the revolution to get pregnant with this particular bloke to spend most of next year walking northwards in a wood we decide these in an instant, without any of that overrated process known as rational thought. More serious mountain accounts have sections as long and tedious as the Great Smokey Mountains about motivation and mental health. Oddly, I didn't have the urge to carry on walking past trees all the way to Maine. Bryson is known for his many travel memoirs, notably his 1996 memoir about Britain, Notes on a Small Island. Over the three days I walked past approximately one million trees. After two days of looking at trees from underneath I emerged onto a hilltop with a view. I did once do three days in the Appalachians. ![]() That's assuming there are some enjoyable bits of the Appalachian Trail. Instead, he skips over all of the bits that are even slightly enjoyable ![]() Bryson is determined to avoid this mistake. Most long-distance walk stories skip over the boredom and the really miserable bits. ![]()
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