Guy at my Gym does a lot of hiking around the world

and he's done the Appalachia Trail from start to finish. Said it was a unique experience, some parts of the trail are well marked and some are not, but you meet a lot of people along the way. I forget how long it took him, but it was months of hiking. With that long a hike you do have issues like injury and getting sick that you have to deal with as well as just fatigue of hiking so much distance. Said you have to keep kicking yourself to keep going day after day. He took breaks and stayed in hotels, esp when he wasn't feeling good.

I had no idea how long it was, I thought it was just in the South, had no idea it went all the way to Maine.