This book was a journey! A beautiful and wild journey!

As someone who was made aware of the PCT in the last year, I immediately added this major hike to my bucket list. I was fully invested in consuming everything about it, and this book kept coming up in every conversation about the PCT, so I had to check it out. 

This is not my first read of Cheryl Strayed, I had read « Tiny Beautiful Things » previously, and I thought it was intimate and raw, but getting to know her through the lens of her PCT hiking experience felt even more raw and honest. So raw that she sounded to me like an unlikable narrator of her own life. She didn’t cover he flaws or wrongdoings, she didn’t shy away from voicing how she felt and the emotions one would not utter, she would write about bravely. Because of this transparency I grew to appreciate and love her, and saw how much the PCT was affecting her from the inside out, and see her beautiful unraveling.

This book gad also strengthened my wish to go through this hike one day too, and experience it fully as it is.