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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

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Rat Town Blues: Slag Ferguson, Book One

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SHE TRAVELS: Real Stories of Women Transformed Through Solo Travel

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― Joan M. Griffin, Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

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“Over The Rainbow Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. ~ John Muir, Undated margin notes in Prose Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Joan M. Griffin, Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

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“The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. ~ John Muir, undated fragment of Muir journals, c.1872,”
― Joan M. Griffin, Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

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