Going to Maine

All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail

De: Sally Chaffin Brooks

Narrado por: Sally Chaffin Brooks

From comedian Sally Chaffin Brooks comes a memoir about the thing she can't seem to shut up about— her life changing thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. 25-year-old Sally has no reason to upend her comfortable, conventional life to spend 5 months hiking the Appalachian Trail; no reason except that her charismatic best friend, Erin, asked her to come along. A woefully out-of-shape Sally quickly realizes she may not actually be prepared for the realities of thru-hiking— brutal weather, wrong turns, and painful blisters have her wanting to quit almost as soon as she starts. But out of loyalty to Erin, or maybe the sinking realization that her life needed upending, Sally sticks it out. As she and Erin trek from Georgia to Maine, they collect a ragtag band of hikers and together stumble from one hilarious (and sometimes scary) predicament to another. By the time she reaches Maine— accompanied by Erin, their crew, and a guy she's maybe (definitely) falling in love with— readers will cheer for the stronger, more self-assured Sally that has emerged and wish they could start the laugh-out-loud, life-affirming adventure all over again.

©2024 Sally Brooks (P)2024 Running Wild, LLC

Funny, heartwarming, and inspiring

I’ve read a lot of long trail memoirs, and Going to Maine is a new favorite. I am sure it will become a hit. Thank you so much for telling your story!

Funny and Immersive

I enjoyed the book and laugh along side it very out loud at times! I could picture every seen and loved it!

Great story, great reader, terrible audio.

Absolutely loved this story from beginning to end, but the audio mixing is so bad that I'm surprised audible accepted it. I would absolutely fire whoever edited this. There is background noise, mic feedback, multiple instances of dead air, the voice lines change pitch and volume and intonation multiple times a paragraph where you can clearly tell the reader had to re-record lines. Overall I highly reccomend this book, but would be amiss if I didn't warn you about the audio quality before buying.

Must read for trail memoir lovers and everyone else

Fun, emotional, upbeat, honest, One of the best, if not THE best, AT trail memoirs I’ve listened to. And I probably have listened to them all.

Awesome book.

Fun story. Good pacing. Interesting and relatable characters. Looking forward to more from this author.

A wonderful journey

This book is a hilarious and fascinating out of body experience. As someone who's never even close to done a hike this big, it kind of feels like I actually have now. I really enjoyed this book.

Down to earth

What an amazing journey for this group and a little love story added in, great audible book!

A pretty good listen

I like the story. It was written by a younger woman, and it tells her trail story along with a friend she meets and along with the relationship that she had before, and after the trip. The only thing I can say is that there’s a lot of swearing in the book. I’m not approved or anything. I think an appropriately placed F bomb is great, but when you sprinkle them to liberally throughout a book it cheapens it.

A great story

Avery great story! Thanks for taking me along. You are one strong lady and thanks to your dad for recommending the book!

I felt like I was there every step evaluating my own journey through life

What an entertaining and invigorating story about the physical and psychological metamorphosis that is the Appalachian Trail. The writing and storytelling are so authentic I felt like one of the gang tagging along for the epic adventure of a young woman rediscovering all her superpowers and flaws that make her great before allowing herself to be placed on the conveyor belt of life only to become someone she is not.