Table of Contents
Leg 1 15 September-30 November 2016
1 Time to Roll (Tide) 3
2 Mississippin' 13
3 Things Ain't So (Big) Easy 19
4 The Big One 27
5 From Green to Yellow 36
6 I Walk the Line 49
7 Welcome to the Wild West 55
8 California Dreamin' 65
Leg 2 13 January-28 April 2017
9 No Easy Way Out 79
10 Getting Lucky 88
11 Arizona Sunsets Will Get You Every Time 91
12 The New Mex Files 101
13 TX2 109
14 Sooner Than You'd Think 115
15 Hope Springs Eternal 119
16 A Change Is Gonna Come 127
17 Going Pramsolo 134
18 Mostly Sweet Virginia 150
19 Meeting George and Mary, While Sampling Dela's Wares 159
20 The Gritty Cities 164
21 Boston Strong 171
22 An Apple a Day 178
23 A New England 183
24 The Maine Event 187
Leg 3 29 April-30 September 2017
25 Becoming a Tripod 195
26 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Brussels Sprouts 201
27 The Flattest of Rollercoasters 209
28 The Oceans Between the Waves 213
29 If You Leave Me Now 218
30 One Vision 225
31 Too Kwik a Trip 229
32 Highway 61 Revisited 234
33 Us 237
34 Far-go 245
35 Big Skies 250
36 Bigger Skies 257
37 Sunshine on Leith 263
38 Burning 269
39 The Prefontaine Pilgrimage 274
Leg 4 1 October-17 December 2017
40 Inspiration Point 285
41 Only the Lonely 289
42 Utah Saints 297
43 Wynter is Coming 301
44 All Downhill from Here 307
45 The Center of the Universe 313
46 Breaking Point 318
47 You Can Go Your Own Way 325
48 Back to Where I Belonged 330
49 Summit to Sea 335
Leg 5 5 January-29 April 2018
50 Re-becoming Forrest 343
51 One. Last. Push. 348
52 Peaches and Screams 353
53 Sweet Home Alabama 359
54 Keep Moving Forward 366
55 A Return to Hope 371
56 Getting My Kicks 375
57 Panhandlin' 384
58 From the Bottom Up 389
59 A Line in the Sand 396
The Most Beautiful Thing I've Ever Seen 401
60 I'm Pretty Tired. I Think I'll Go Home Now. 405
Becoming Forest: Fascinating (I Hope) Facts and Stats 417
Acknowledgements 419