![]() He immediately informs Bryson that he needs to eat every hour or he has seizures, and he insists on stopping by Dunkin’ Donuts on the way to Bryson’s place. Surely enough, when Katz shows up, he’s heavily overweight and addicted to junk food. Bryson’s wife is skeptical, as she remembers Bryson finding Katz irritating on their last trip together many years ago. ![]() Terrified of being in the woods alone, Bryson reaches out to his network for a travel companion-and Stephen Katz, an old high school friend he hasn’t seen in years, agrees to join him. ![]() After buying lots of camping gear, Bryson reads voraciously about the threats of the wild and stays up for hours each night imagining himself being mauled to death by bears. However, he soon learns that he’s going to have to camp and be prepared to fend for himself in the wilderness. He assumed that hiking in the United States would be similar to hiking in Europe, where people mostly walk in the countryside and then retire in a rural village inn. As soon as he starts reading about the American wilderness, however, he realizes that he’s in over his head. Motivated by a desire to explore his homeland and grow more acquainted with the United States, he decides to hike the Appalachian Trail. ![]() In 1996, Bill Bryson moves to New Hampshire after living in Europe for the last several years. ![]()
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