Four days after their April 2 wedding, Michigan residents Nick and Kara Saur were covering their skin with industrial-strength bug repellant, not SPF 30 suntan lotion.
And the adventure-seeking newlyweds – Kara is a native of Canton; Nick was born and raised in the Grand Rapids area – were lacing up hiking boots, not slipping on sandals, for a six-month, 2,193-mile journey on the Appalachian Trail.
“It started out as a joke, to be honest,” Kara Saur said, chuckling, as she and Nick neared the 1,300-mile mark of their journey July 8 somewhere in northwest New Jersey. “We thought, ‘What if we did that? Wouldn’t that be crazy?’
“The more we talked about it, the more we thought, ‘Well, why not?’ We don’t own a house yet, we don’t have kids yet. If we’re ever going to do it, it had better be now.”
So they went for it and couldn’t be more happy … or sore.
“Every day we wake up with what is referred to as the hikers’ hobble,” Kara said. “It’s kind of funny: Everybody gets out of their tents and walks a little stiff-like.”
Not the kind of stuff you see most mornings in Cancun.
For those of you who spent the week after your wedding on an all-inclusive cruise or in an exotic Caribbean resort, here’s a CliffsNotes summary of the…
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