Wild comes out in theaters this weekend and to celebrate the release here are some of the most impactful and introspective lines from the book that will hopefully inspire you to a take a journey of your own someday. And furthermore we rarely – if ever – see a woman’s story end happily where she doesn’t have a man or any money. We see so many stories and movies about men going off on their own to explore the wilderness, yet never about the journeys women take alone, especially in a landscape as incredible, rigorous, and unforgiving as the PCT. When I found out the book was being adapted to the big screen I was so excited for her – not only because I’m truly a fan of her work but because her story is one I think that is so important for women to read. Since then I’ve read Wild countless times and have become a huge fan of Cheryl’s. I carried that book with me the entire trip. I hadn’t gone through the exact same things as Cheryl but her life experiences were similar to mine and her words spoke to me more so than any other book I had read in a long time. I bought Wild at a bookstore on the way to the Detroit airport and read the entire thing in one sitting en route to El Salvador. It all seems sort of appropriate that this is the time Cheryl Strayed’s incredible story about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail by herself would come into my life. I had just ended a 5-year-relationship and had no idea what the hell I was doing. The first time I read Wild I was on my first backpacking trip in Central America.
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