To quote Kevin Arnold from the Wonder Years, “Growing up doesn’t have to be a straight line, but a series of advances and retreats.”

John Muir

Taken from The Clymb's weekly email - I love John Muir and never actually knew this about him!

TODAY IN ADVENTURE

Muir Begins 1,000-Mile Trek

On September 2nd (that’s today!), 1867, the American naturalist-explorer, John Muir, left Louisville, Kentucky to begin his Thousand-mile trek to the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier that year, Muir had temporarily blinded himself while working as a sawyer. After spending six weeks in a dark room to recover, he re-committed his life to follow his dreams. So at the age of 29, he set off on this life-changing Thousand-mile journey with no planned route, and only a vague sense of his destination, but it would lead him down the path to becoming "the patron saint of the American Wilderness."