Originally Posted by
mtb_addict
Seems like most of the cost is from food.
Could've live on snickers bars and ramen noodles, to keep it cheap, when you're young and your body can take any kind of abuse.
Food plus the cost for occasional stays in hotels and laundry. I paid my own way through college, so money was dear at that time in my life. When I did make more money working summer jobs, I needed to save as much as possible to pay for tuition, fees and rent. In retrospect, I wish that I had taken the time to hike the AT and found a way to pay for it, but that's a hard decision to make when you're trying to work your way through college.
I will be retiring soon and hope to do some of the things that I couldn't afford to -- time or moneywise -- when I was younger. I no longer desire to hike the AT, but I would still like to ride my bike across the USA. I might very well do that if my wife doesn't object too strongly.