I’m just popping out for a little walk in the woods.

I’ve taken the sack I’ve been given, slung it on my back, and down the Appalachian Trail I go. Join me as I rediscover America, shed my old skin, which is to say my young one, and cross the threshold into middle age, Vanaprastha - the Vedic concept of the “forest dwelling” stage of life in which a man retreats from day to day bread-winning and transitions to middle age, conscious of his limits and his mortality.

Traditionally depicted as being led away from desires and worldly responsibilities by the spiritual life which takes his hand and leads him into the woodland of wisdom.