Happy Trail Quotes

“I want her beside me as I take this journey through life. She’s both the path I’d follow anywhere and my destination.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Love is what gives our journey meaning. How we travel this winding trail of life and who walks beside us makes all the difference. I want Jay beside me for every step and each new adventure.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“To all the haters who think I’ll never get married and am going to die alone as a cat lady, I say ha! I’ll be the crazy bird woman with binoculars and a camouflage poncho, silently hiding out in reeds or woods. As a stealth ninja, a friend of the beaked and feathered.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“What are the odds of my dream coming true?” He whispers against my hair, “About as good as the two of us finding each other in the middle of nowhere.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“These are my people, the crazy dreamers who decide they want to live their life off the beaten path. At least for a little while.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“It can be difficult to be authentic when you feel like an outsider among the people who are supposed to be your community.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Rationally, the right thing to do is let her go. We come from two different worlds and have nothing in common. She’s a serial monogamist with commitment issues. I’m a loner with trust issues.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“We can’t control how others perceive us, yet we are unable to stop those opinions from shaping our identity.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Dammit, he’s adorable. I bet he can be a sweetheart if and when he forgets to be grumpy.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Do you have wood?” I ask, without thinking. Jesus take the wheel of my brain-to-mouth bus. “For the fireplace,” I add. He stands stock-still and does nothing to ease my verbal flailing. “You know … for heat. I’ll stop talking now,” I mumble.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Do you have wood?” I ask, without thinking. Jesus take the wheel of my brain-to-mouth bus. “For the fireplace,” I add.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“It takes a certain personality to overcome the mental challenges of long-distance hiking. Stubborn. Tenacious. Idealistic.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“For the most part, everyone is nice enough, but I’m over every, single, last dude bro who feels the need to mansplain my hike to me.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Back in the city, I used to imagine the unbroken quiet of the woods. Ha! Most days it’s a cacophony of bird conversations over the chatter of insects and frogs. Cicadas are the loud, drunk girls of the woods. No point in trying to shush them. They’ll only scream louder.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Hiking is putting one foot in front of the other. One foot. In front of the other. Repeat forever. One step becomes ten and then a thousand. Eventually, these steps turn into miles. Miles turn into days. Days turn into states. States turn into months. Months become life hiking the Appalachian Trail.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Sure, I could’ve stopped hiking at any time. Could’ve quit and phoned someone to take me back to the city or out to the beach house to heal both my real and mental wounds. Instead, fueled by sadness, a healthy reserve of spite, and a side of shame, I kept walking. As long as I was on the AT, I could avoid the rest of my life and whatever fallout had been created by Tye’s proposal.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“No one told me I’d get an alias. I’ve always wanted a nickname. Squeaky, so named because he had a pair of noisy boots when he started, assumed Tye and Olive were our trail noms de guerre. When asked why, he said Tye looked like he’d be more comfortable in a suit and I was small and round but obviously salty.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“The knowledge that we’re not alone in taking the easy way is both comforting and a confirmation of my sense of imposter syndrome.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Puts things in perspective for me. Tye and I are sloths in comparison to their pace. Smelly, cranky, slow sloths who make questionable life decisions.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“In hindsight, I should’ve had my eyes checked for color blindness. I kept missing all the red flags.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“Bragging rights and the endless, fascinating stories we’ll get to tell at dinner parties for the rest of our lives will be worth more than any trophy on a mantle,” he countered, revealing his true motivation for the hike.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail

“We need reservations to sleep on the ground?” I asked, naïve to the world of camping.”
― Daisy Prescott, Happy Trail