Title: Committed to what?
Product review: About halfway though the book, after a month-long break, Bryson unexpectedly decides to drive to different points on the trail and to do a series of small hikes. This decision underscores the author's lack of sincerity and lack of commitment to the entire venture. He justifies this change of plans by noting that "it is almost impossible to .... get on and off the trail without assistance." Yet, at various points in the trip, he and Katz take taxis all over creation. The AT crosses roads at many places along its route. Couldn't Bryson have taken a taxi to a drop off-point, if he was really intent on resuming the hike?These day-hikes provide a lot of material for the last half of the book. Bryson was very strongly committed to something, although it was not to hiking the AT. How about to publishing another book....
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