Hello faithful followers! I appreciate you coming along for the journey. I have just migrated and upgraded this website to trekkinghome.com This will give me much more editorial freedom and I am excited to keep on writing, I hope you will head over there and keep up-to-date with all of the latest. Lots of love, …
Author: Life Without Limits
My name is Lynne Wummel, I also go by Lioness. I like to take long walks, and bike rides. Also a huge fan of new experiences and stepping out of my comfort zone. I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 2017, then biked across America on the Trans American Trail in 2018. I have had jobs as a white water rafting guide in Colorado, and at a summer camp in my home state of Michigan where I had the opportunity to lead a bunch of 16 year olds on a sea kayaking trip out in the Georgian Bay. Life is wild, there is so much beauty to experience and people to meet. Follow along for some of those experiences :)
P.S. currently flying through the cosmos so leave me a message and I will get back to you.
6 Months Later
Well today marks the 6 month anniversary since that fateful, sunny, March Colorado afternoon that I broke my leg. I am doing limited walking, I can bike relatively pain free, my yoga arsenal is increasing bit by bit and yesterday I went rock climbing for the first time since the accident! I canāt walk very …
Summer 2022
(most of this was written sometime in July, just getting around to editing it and such, check out the rest of Chronicles of a Broken Body for this to make more sense) My hair is growing out quite a bit, funny the way it serves as a clock, keeping track of the passing time with …
The Healing Process
It has been just shy of two months since I have had a plate and 3 screws put into my Tibia Plateau (Knee region) and a titanium plate into my skull to ensure both bones grow back as they should. I went back to my doctor at the 6 week mark and got the okay …
Reflections, Early Spring 2021
I found a piece of paper, carefully folded among the pages of my journal. It was from about this time a year ago, I was on the mend of a broken ankle. I remember biking out to the river, with my walking boot strapped carefully over an ankle that was still in the process of …
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
You know that song by The Rolling Stones, it goes something like "you cant al-ways get what you wannttt, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you neeedddd". Its one of my favorite songs, (although my favorite rendition if by Rusted Root) not for the tune, nor the melody but …
Biking Across America
It was the winter of 2018, I was adjusting to my first year of university after having taken a 143 day break from the real world. A break that led me to walk from Georgia to Maine, covering around 2, 189 miles and traveling through 14 states, completing a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Thru-hiking …
Gear list and General Advice
The following material is what I carried with me on my bike trip on the Trans American Trail and things that I found useful. There is no one way to bike across the country and there is no one gear list that is going to work for everyone. Take the following for what it is, …
The “Gap Year”
What is a gap year you ask? By the book, it is period of time taken by a student as a break between secondary school and higher education. It can also be seen as a period of time before one begins a masters or Phd program, before entering the work force after college or even …
Deciding to Take a Gap Year
It was my first white water rafting trip, down the Pigeon River in Tennessee. I was with my parents, visiting Gatlinburg during my high school junior year's spring break. The guide was giving us his spiel and talking about the area. He mentioned this trail that was nearby, this a-pa-la-chin trail. "Generally take the folks …
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