After bankruptcy and divorce in the same year, David Wilson did what most 51-year-olds wouldn't: he walked from Mexico to Canada. The Pacific Crest Trail — 2,650 miles, five months, one pair of trail runners at a time.
He wasn't looking for himself. He was looking for what came next.
What he found on the trail surprised him. Not enlightenment. Not a clean break from the past. But something more useful — a clearer way of seeing how people lead, why we fail, and what it actually takes to keep moving when the next mile looks worse than the last.
This book follows his footsteps from the desert floor of Southern California, through 700 miles of heat and dry creek beds, up into the granite peaks of the High Sierra, over the highest point in the lower 48, and north through smoke and wildfire closures into Washington. Along the way, the trail taught him things the boardroom never did.
These aren't metaphors borrowed from a hike. They're lessons earned by it.
