title: The Mountains-to-Sea Trail Across North Carolina: Walking a Thousand Miles through Wildness, Culture and History (Natural History)
author:  Danny Bernstein 
description: Remindful of Bill Bryson's<i> A Walk in the Woods, Danny Bernstein's The Mountains-to-Sea Trail also isn't a trail guide per se. It's a travel book.This will find its place among the front ranks of books depicting outdoor life and travel in North Carolina.<br /> George Ellison,<em>Blue Ridge Nature Journal</em> <br /><br />More than an excellent travelogue, this book offers much useful information for anyone contemplating a walk on the MST. Danny's book is compelling and destined to become a classic. William A Hart Jr.,<em>3000 Miles in the Great Smokies</em></i><em>
  						    	
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zlib_text: A Walk To Remember
  Nicholas Sparks
  Chapter 1
  In 1958, Beaufort, North Carolina, which is located on the coast near Morehead
  City, was a place like many other small southern towns. It was the kind of
  place where the humidity rose so high in the summer that walking out to get the
  mail made a person feel as if he needed a shower, and kids walked around
  barefoot from April through October beneath oak trees draped in Spanish moss.
  People waved from their cars whenever they saw someone on the street
  whether they knew him or not, and the air smelled of pine, salt, and sea, a scent
  unique to the Carolinas. For many of the people there, fishing in the Pamlico
  Sound or crabbing in the Neuse River was a way of life, and boats were
  moored wherever you saw the Intracoastal Waterway. Only three channels
  came in on the television, though television was never important to those of us
  who grew up there. Instead our lives were centered around the churches, of
  which there were eighteen within the town li