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I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

10 best books like I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail (Gail D. Storey): Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail, Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail, On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage, In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail, Miles from Nowhere, Dances with Marmots: A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure, Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail

Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorKelly Winters
ISBN1555836585
It was hard not to make comparisons between Wild (Cheryl Strayed) and this book, although this one was published in 2001, well before Wild (2012). Both women are somewhat broken, which is the impetus for them to commit to a long-distance hike. Both have important relationships with a parent.

Winters,...
Called Again: Love and Triumph on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorJennifer Pharr Davis
ISBN0825306930
In 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis became the overall record holder on the Appalachian Trail. By hiking 2,181 miles in 46 days -- an average of 47 miles per day -- she became the first female to ever set that mark. But this is not a book about records or numbers; this is a book about endurance and faith, and most...
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
AuthorSuzanne Roberts
ISBN0803240120
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never...
A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorJeff Alt
ISBN0825308496
As seen on ESPN and Hallmark Channel: Jeff Alt takes you along every step of his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail adventure filled with humorous, frightening, and inspirational stories including bears, bugs, blisters, captivating characters, skunk bed mates, and hilarious food cravings. As Alt walked...
On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage
AuthorRobert Alden Rubin
ISBN1585743976
I finished On the Beaten Path recently and have to say it's one of the most lyrical books on the AT experience I've ever read. I love Rubin's writing, as I should, since he was an editor before hitting the trail and made the journey after becoming disillusioned with his job, along with the difficulties editors...
In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60
AuthorLeslie Mass
ISBN0976568608
In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59, she began to train for a grueling journey, a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. 'In Beauty May She Walk' chronicles Leslie's struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the...
Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail
AuthorDennis R. Blanchard
ISBN1450557465
Dennis Blanchard's promise to his brother haunted him for over forty years. Finally, when there were no more excuses, he set out on the Appalachian Trail to fulfill that promise. He learned that walking in the wilderness can reconnect one with a Norman Rockwell America that at times seems long lost and...
Miles from Nowhere
AuthorBarbara Savage
ISBN0898861098
A well-loved, classic tale of adventure, a book you'll find yourself recommending again and again

This is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage's sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000 miles global bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years....
Dances with Marmots: A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure
AuthorGeorge Spearing
ISBN1411656180
This story of a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike is both the same and different as the dozens of other accounts I’ve read.

It is the same because the trail is the same, the difficulties are the same, and the challenges of writing about a 5-month walking adventure are the same. After all, walking...
Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail
AuthorBill Walker
The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT)is the perfect place for an average person to do something extraordinary. Bill Walker ("Skywalker"), who stands 6'11", might seem like anything but average. Yet in a brutally honest tone, he lays to bare all his considerable weaknesses and fears. Among...
Hiking the Continental Divide Trail: One Woman's Journey
AuthorJennifer A. Hanson
ISBN1568251203
5 States, 148 Hiking Days, 25 Supply Points, 130 Maps
br>A how-to adventure for both armchair and real-life hikers. Foreword by Steve Dudley, Executive Director of the Continental Divide Trail Alliance.

An avid outsoorswoman, West Point graduate and former Captain in the U.S. Army,...
Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
AuthorJoe Glickman
ISBN0762772875
I devoured this book. There are not enough good published stories of modern women who are truly adventurous - at least not for me. But this is a great one! The German business woman Freya Hoffmeister (among other accomplishments) circumnavigated the entire continent of Australia in her kayak, an incredibly...
Small Feet, Big Land: Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska
AuthorErin McKittrick
ISBN1594857369
Small Feet, Big Land follows the expeditions and daily life of a family of four: Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, lifelong adventure trekkers, set out to explore the vast and remote wild corners of Alaska with their two young children in tow.

After trekking thousands of miles through harsh...
Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog
AuthorSteph Davis
ISBN1451652054
When professional rock climber Steph Davis started skydiving, she discovered new love, hope, and joy in letting go.

“It’s not so surprising that on the day of my fifth wedding anniversary I would be crouched in the open door of an airplane, thirteen thousand feet above the Colorado plains,...
A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail
AuthorAngela Ballard
ISBN0898869021
Winner of the 2003 Barbara Savage Miles from Nowhere Award and Winner of the 2004 National Outdoor Book Award
A blend of romance, humor, and adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail Written in "he said/she said" alternating chapters, this young couple each tell their own story They're not sure which...
The Trail Life: How I Loved it, Hated it, and Learned from it
AuthorJulie Urbanski
ISBN1468023128
Join Stopwatch, an inexperienced thru-hiker with a steep learning curve, as she tackles her first long-distance hike, the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, over 2600 miles from Mexico to Canada. She begins the trail with the sole purpose of getting to Canada and quickly realizes she has a lot to...
Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China, & Vietnam
AuthorErika Warmbrunn
ISBN0898866847
A thoroughly enjoyable travel book from the point of view of a woman who is not really soul-seeking, not healing from a tragic life event, not exoticizing the people she encounters or the places she goes.

Erika Warmbrunn is a young woman in the early 1990s who has a lot of world travel under her...
In Movement There Is Peace
AuthorElaine Orabona Foster
In Movement There is Peace is a powerful tale of travel, adventure and unexpected faith.
It begins with a doctor who walks away from her practice in order to cure her own paralyzing anxiety. Once free, she discovers that leaving is really only fleeing if there's no new direction. Could this be the...
Ghost Trails
AuthorJill Homer
ISBN0557024072
Most sports become inspirational when extraordinary people excel at ordinary things. In ultra-endurance racing, ordinary people must excel at extraordinary things. "Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the suburbs of Salt Lake City - and her unlikely...
Teaching the Cat to Sit: A Memoir
AuthorMichelle Theall
ISBN1451697295
Nuanced and poignant, heartrending and funny, Michelle Theall’s thoughtful memoir is a universal story about our quest for unconditional love from our parents, our children, and most important, from ourselves.

Even when society, friends, the legal system, and the Pope himself swing...
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World
AuthorLavinia Spalding
Anyone whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping the travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race.

From Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories...
Biking Across America: My Coast-To-Coast Adventure and the People I Met Along the Way
AuthorPaul V. Stutzman
ISBN0800721780
After Paul Stutzman finished hiking the Appalachian Trail, he found himself longing for another challenge, another adventure. Trading his hiking boots for a bicycle, Paul set off to discover more of America. Starting at Neah Bay, Washington, and ending at Key West, Florida, Paul traversed the 5,000-mile...
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