Mom and Son Hike the Appalachian Trail

Committed

Jo Piazza

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What would it take for a sixteen year old boy to hike the entire Appalachian trail with his mom? That's what we are talking about today with Jessica and Largo, the mother and son duo we chatted with last week about traveling the world as a family. Jessica and Largo saw their relationship and their bond change and evolve during their months together on the trail. Sometimes Jessica was the caregiver and sometimes it switched to Largo. Sometimes they talked about everything under the sun and sometimes they were silent for days on end. They bother emerged from this journey changed and ready for the next phase in their relationship when Largo leaves the family nest.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Piazza, and you're listening to Committed.
0:12.3	I want to throw something out there to all of the parents of teenagers everywhere,
0:17.7	or really to anyone who's ever been a teenager.
0:24.6	What do you think it would take to get a 16-year-old boy to hike the entire Appalachian Trail with his mom? That's what we're going to talk about today.
0:32.3	Last week you all met Jessica and Largo. They're a mother-son duo who have been traveling around the world together with the rest of
0:39.1	their family.
0:40.5	But last year, they decided to try something a little bit different.
0:45.0	They decided to hike the Appalachian Trail together.
0:48.0	The entire thing.
0:50.8	And look, these two were very close before they took this trip.
0:55.4	But this journey, this adventure, it changed them.
1:00.1	And it changed their relationship.
1:02.6	What I really love about this story is hearing it from both of their perspectives.
1:06.9	These days, I'm a mom.
1:08.1	I've got three kids under the age of seven.
1:10.7	But I also remember very, very well what it was like to be a teenager.
1:15.3	So I like to hear both Jessica and Largo's stories about how this went down. So you came back to the United States, and now you're on the A.T., the Appalachian Trail together.
1:43.3	Talk to me about what that's been like.
1:46.1	That's been interesting. That's definitely been interesting. So originally we decided to start
1:53.4	kind of preparing for this back in December of 2024, 2020, actually, sorry. And that was interesting.
2:02.4	When you originally pitched me the idea, I was actually quite opposed to it, to be honest.
2:06.8	It was kind of this crazy outlandish.
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