Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer's, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit
When the cosmic tumblers click into place and the universe opens its vault, miracles can happen. Inspired by his dying father’s dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Paul Travers hits the trail and finds that miracle in the healing power of America’s sacred mountains.

Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer’s, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit chronicles Paul’s hike to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association and prove that sixty is the new forty. More than a travelogue, it is a love story about fathers and sons, families battling Alzheimer’s, and the people and places along the Appalachian Trail. Sprinkled with humor and humanity, it is the spiritual response to Bill Bryson’s bestseller A Walk in the Woods.

On his pilgrimage, Paul eludes the FBI, meets his guardian angel, survives a lightning strike and a near drowning, encounters the ghost of a relative, acquires a trail name (Sondance), finds a field of dreams, walks off the war, solves the death of a Hollywood starlet, discovers Saint Francis and the Buddha in New York, embraces a religious cult, visits ground zero for the sixties hippie movement (Arlo’s not Alice’s Restaurant), receives a sacred stone from a Lakota medicine man, meets a female apostle, discovers his father’s parallel spiritual journey, and copes with the death of his parents.

His adventure ultimately reveals nature is not only the handiwork of God but the hand of God that leads each of us on a unique spiritual journey.
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Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer's, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit
When the cosmic tumblers click into place and the universe opens its vault, miracles can happen. Inspired by his dying father’s dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Paul Travers hits the trail and finds that miracle in the healing power of America’s sacred mountains.

Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer’s, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit chronicles Paul’s hike to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association and prove that sixty is the new forty. More than a travelogue, it is a love story about fathers and sons, families battling Alzheimer’s, and the people and places along the Appalachian Trail. Sprinkled with humor and humanity, it is the spiritual response to Bill Bryson’s bestseller A Walk in the Woods.

On his pilgrimage, Paul eludes the FBI, meets his guardian angel, survives a lightning strike and a near drowning, encounters the ghost of a relative, acquires a trail name (Sondance), finds a field of dreams, walks off the war, solves the death of a Hollywood starlet, discovers Saint Francis and the Buddha in New York, embraces a religious cult, visits ground zero for the sixties hippie movement (Arlo’s not Alice’s Restaurant), receives a sacred stone from a Lakota medicine man, meets a female apostle, discovers his father’s parallel spiritual journey, and copes with the death of his parents.

His adventure ultimately reveals nature is not only the handiwork of God but the hand of God that leads each of us on a unique spiritual journey.
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Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer's, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit

Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer's, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit

by Paul Travers
Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer's, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit

Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer's, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit

by Paul Travers

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When the cosmic tumblers click into place and the universe opens its vault, miracles can happen. Inspired by his dying father’s dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Paul Travers hits the trail and finds that miracle in the healing power of America’s sacred mountains.

Dancing with the Mountains: Alzheimer’s, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Spirit chronicles Paul’s hike to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association and prove that sixty is the new forty. More than a travelogue, it is a love story about fathers and sons, families battling Alzheimer’s, and the people and places along the Appalachian Trail. Sprinkled with humor and humanity, it is the spiritual response to Bill Bryson’s bestseller A Walk in the Woods.

On his pilgrimage, Paul eludes the FBI, meets his guardian angel, survives a lightning strike and a near drowning, encounters the ghost of a relative, acquires a trail name (Sondance), finds a field of dreams, walks off the war, solves the death of a Hollywood starlet, discovers Saint Francis and the Buddha in New York, embraces a religious cult, visits ground zero for the sixties hippie movement (Arlo’s not Alice’s Restaurant), receives a sacred stone from a Lakota medicine man, meets a female apostle, discovers his father’s parallel spiritual journey, and copes with the death of his parents.

His adventure ultimately reveals nature is not only the handiwork of God but the hand of God that leads each of us on a unique spiritual journey.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781940265940
Publisher: Ozark Mountain Publishing
Publication date: 09/01/2021
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul J. Travers received a BA in English from the University of Maryland and an MA in human resources management from Pepperdine University. Following graduation, he served in the US Marine Corps. A former park ranger and historian with the Maryland Park Service, he is also the author of Eyewitness to Infamy (An Oral History of Pearl Harbor), The Patapsco: Baltimore’s River of History, The Flight of the Shadow Drummer, and The Cowgirl and the Colts.
Over the past decade, he has been involved with various historical and environmental groups. He continues to hike the Appalachian Trail.

Table of Contents

Prologue Daydream Believer i

Chapter 1 Spring Forth 1

Chapter 2 Appalachian Tsunami 14

Chapter 3 Cheeseburgers for Jesus 30

Chapter 4 Albert's White Lightnin' 39

Chapter 5 To B or Not to B 52

Chapter 6 An Angel Appeared and Said… 64

Chapter 7 A Patch of Heaven 79

Chapter 8 The Name Game 92

Chapter 9 Homes Away from Home 103

Chapter 10 A Ghostly Visitation 117

Chapter 11 A Field of Dreams 127

Chapter 12 Walkin' Off the War 143

Chapter 13 Death of a Hollywood Starlet 158

Chapter 14 Ode to a Mountain Poet 173

Chapter 15 A Father's Day Gift 188

Chapter 16 Rap, Rocks, and Rockamini 200

Chapter 17 Bears, Bugs, and Brite 206

Chapter 18 The Brother and the Buddha 212

Chapter 19 You Can't in Kent, or Can You? 228

Chapter 20 Arlo's, not Alice's, Restaurant 241

Chapter 21 Sunset on Sondance 255

Chapter 22 An Old Soldier Fades Away 266

Chapter 23 Eagle Man and the Sacred Stone 273

Chapter 24 Ver-mud and Ver-done in Vermont 282

Chapter 25 Knights in the Whites 295

Chapter 26 Finding a Bodhi Tree 306

Chapter 27 An Apostle in Monson 319

Chapter 28 Climb(ed) Every Mountain 329

Chapter 29 Wednesdays with Frannie 335

Epilogue Beyond Katahdin 344

About the Author 347

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