[at-l] ALDHA 25th GATHERING information up on website

[Marsha]

Did she say "thanks for noticing"....?

She's kidding-right?

How in the WORLD could we not notice?

When I found out that Jan had a table at the Gathering I threatened anyone 
who dare stand in front of me in line ........

....and I want a free hug too.

Marsha

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Leitschuh" <janl2 at mindspring.com>
To: <kent_gardam at yahoo.com>; <at-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] ALDHA 25th GATHERING information up on website


>
> I'm on digest, so I don't know if Linda, Nina or Clyde has answered this 
> yet.
>
> Yes, I've wriiten a "tome." Nice word, tome. Sounds... weighty.
> The highly intelligent and enormously well-traveled Ms. Nina Waterfall 
> Rogers is my editor (who better?)
> and Middleton Press is the publisher.
>
> No, Ken you haven't missed an announcement.
> Ms. Worm and the Gathering forced my hand. The book is still in the book 
> factory.
>
> It's on my first long-distance hike - the Long Trail - with my 
> heart-attack-challenged hiking partner Clyde "The Middle-Aged Fat man" 
> Dodge. I was a brand new backpacker, tender and unseasoned,  and the it 
> nearly killed me. The trail, that is, although when Clyde got fit and 
> realized he wasn't going to die, his ambitious pace nearly killed me too.
>
> I thought it would make a decent story since not everyone can drop 
> everything and hike the Appalachian Trail for months at a time, but a 
> long-distance adventure and hike of a month or so might be possible 
> without quitting one's day job. Hence the name "The Ordinary Adventurer."
>
> The "tome" will be out sometime later this year, and when it's available I 
> will make a BIG announcement. Believe me.
> ;-)
>
> I'll be pre-selling it at the Gathering. My publisher has made a nifty 
> mockup of the cover to display, and Stacy has given me a table, so look me 
> up. Oh, and free hugs too.
>
> Thanks for noticing.   ((((((Ken)))))
>
>
>
> Message: 22
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 04:24:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Kent Gardam <kent_gardam at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] ALDHA 25th GATHERING information up on website
> To: lpatton at mailer.fsu.edu, at-l list <at-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
> Message-ID: <20061004112441.72252.qmail at web84008.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> In perusing the offerings, I came across the following discretely hidden 
> among Book
> Offerings:
> The Ordinary Adventurer: Hiking Vermont?s Long Trail, Jan Leitschuh
>
>  Did I miss an announcement?  I wasn't aware that Ms. Shoe had written a 
> tome.
>
> lpatton at mailer.fsu.edu wrote:
>  The Gathering workshop schedule and some other information is up on the
> ALDHA website at http://www.aldha.org/new06.htm Thank you Stacy and
> Greg! ~~ eArThworm
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