Posted on 06/22/2009 7:45:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has been hiking the Appalachian Trail, a spokesman said Monday, explaining a dayslong absence that perplexed fellow state leaders.
Sanford hadn't been at work for several days and his office hadn't been in touch with him. Lawmakers and his wife said Monday they didn't know where he was, leading critics to question who was in charge of South Carolina.
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Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said Sanford left town on Thursday with plans to hike the Appalachian Trail. ..
"He's just up there to kind of clear his head after the legislative session," Sawyer told The Associated Press in an interview.
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The local PBS channel a few years ago followed these people who hiked the entire Appalachian Trail. This story made me think of congressman Steve Largent who was on an outdoor hiking trip of some kind when 9/11 happened and his staff had no way to contact him since he didn’t have a cell phone with him.
ping!
Jon Voight’s character in Deliverence while feeling a bit of alcohol by the campfire slurred that no matter what problems happens in the rest of the world or what great emergency may arise “it won’t find us up here”.
I've been there!
Sanford seems to be a good, solid conservative governor, who has made nice progress into the national limelight. So, the msm is working overtime to make the ol’ crazy taint stick to him.
No serious presidential aspirant can make a move in public anymore, without calculating for effect. That wasn’t done here.
/johnny
Did you take temporary leave of the trail at Hot Springs, NC for a shower or to soak in a natural hot spring, plus experience a little bohemian culture, lol?
It’s still a neat place, despite catching the Asheville contagion.
/johnny
The session was over, the guy wanted to get a few days away, and they couldn’t really say where he was because he’s out in the open and probably with no real protection.
But the media has had a frenzy over this, even though most of the time he has been gone was the weekend.
Meanwhile, in our state of Virginia, our governor is busy doing job — as head of the DNC. He was supposed to “work on weekends”, but he’s been off all over the country at all days of the week. And he won’t tell anybody when he’s here or away, but the news media has not spent any time at all questioning this arrangement.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2277017/posts?page=182#182
Not the whole thing. Just the Georgia part. Got lost (sort-of).
I got my BFA at Western Carolina, which is right by the GA border (if we wanted to go to “town” we road-tripped to Atlanta). I’ve hiked down into Georgia on the trail, and nearly to VA on the NC segment.
Hot Springs was a nice, slightly wacky respite back then. It’s getting a little hippie-gentrified now.
How does that work, exactly? It's a trail/path that runs generally south and north. Wake up in the morning and headed to Maine? Keep the sun on your right shoulder all morning long.
Going to Georgia? Wake up in the morning and keep the sun on your left shoulder.
I don't get it. Same thing with the Chisholm around here. Indians beat a footpath from Austin to Oklahoma that a blind man couldn't miss.
Folks get lost every year. ;)
/johnny
WAY COOL. I like the Governor even more.
right, sure he is. Pull the other one. He just decided to go, spur of the moment thing. In other news, Governor found dead.
Can’t say as I blame him...he had expressed frustrations over being forced to take the stimulus money on Beck’s show recently.
See the link in post 12.
I feel like doing the same thing.
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