The Appalachian Trail is a continuous path in a canopy. It might be nicknamed the "social rooted trail" as the chance of not seeing a soul on a single day is nil, but the chance to stumble on a root is 100%. But a continuous trail from Key West, Florida, to the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, would diversify the experience of long-distance hiking. Crucial to that experience is the completion of a missing link in the south between the Florida Trail and the start of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia, and another one in the north between Mount Katahdin, Maine, and the Canadian border. "Hope is the poor man's bread," said the poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593-1633) to his parishioners."