Sanford, as we all now know, went AWOL from his state last week, then re-emerged to admit that he had not been on the Appalachian Trail writing a book, as the chaotic explanations from his family and his staff had suggested, but in South America where he had gone to break up with his lover.
The question arises: why are the three most famous accounts of hiking three of the world's most famous long-distance trails written by people who did not hike the whole distance?
With the help of producer Paul Northfield the band returned in May 2002 with Vapor Trails, written and recorded in Toronto.
For example, MCR gave free aid to the Detroit Greenways Coalition, a network of nonprofits interested in building urban trails, writing up the legal paperwork needed to build an interconnected greenway in Detroit.
"I believe I have all I need to conduct interviews, as there is an excellent paper trail," she wrote.
The Clinton administration treated Mylroie as, in her words, "a nut case," but Wolfowitz -- then spending the Clinton years as dean of the prestigious School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins -- listened to her 90-minute briefing on the evidence trail and wrote a sympathetic blurb for her book blaming Iraq for the first trade-center attack.
If Shawn, reluctant to leave a paper trail, seldom wrote letters and didn't keep carbons -- he is desperately afraid of being quoted," James Thurber complained to E. B. White -- Ross couldn't help himself, firing off wheedles and jokes to everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to Nol Coward.
While on the trail, Kolby wrote and published two papers from his dissertation using a solar-powered laptop.
In one entry, while describing how she had escaped an American bombardment that killed units of North Vietnamese soldiers ahead of her and behind her on the Ho Chi Minh trail, she wrote that leaving me to cover the war was the hardest decision she ever made.
"There is nothing happy about that trail," he wrote of his uncanny face-and-body hair.
