Link to Amazon – Paper Back: A Rumble with Life, Love, and God on the PCT
Link to Amazon – Kendal: A Rumble with Life, Love, and God on the PCT
Wrestling with Life, Love, and Culture on the PCT is about the highs and lows of that journey and how it shaped my relationship with Cheryl Lewin Dye. The story explores our young love, and the rough patches we encountered as we navigated a cross-cultural relationship. How a missionary kid from the jungles of Papua New Guinea and a church girl from Southern California forged a life together. This book is an abbreviated version of A Rumble with Life, Love, and God on the PCT that eliminates most of the devotional aspects of the narrative.
As I look back over my life and the choices I made. I am stunned by the significance of 1982. I made three decisions in 1982 that shaped the trajectory of the rest of my life. Age 16 is a season for that type of thing, but these decisions were not of the: what college will a go to or what am I going to be when I grow up type. They were of the “am going to do a thing” type.
Thing one was I am going to quit High School for a year and walk the Pacific Crest Trail. Thing two was I am going to pursue this girl named Cheryl Lewin. Thing three was I am not going back to the missionary field with my parents. Instead, I chose to become an emancipated minor, move in with my older brother in Pasadena, California and finish up High School. These three things are interrelated, and they happened in the order mentioned. On March 26th, 1982, Tom and I stood at a small wooden fence post labeled Pacific Crest Trail and began a life-changing journey.
Post About This Trip and Significant Life Events Forty Years Ago
Post 1: When our dreams keep those close to us from their dreams.
Post 2: Forty Years Ago – The Birth of My Dream to Hike the PCT
Post 3: Planning, Preparation, and Persistence
Post 4: “Puppy Eyes” and “Mountian Man”
Post 7: Wandering in the Wilderness
Post 8: Life Interrupted – Collisions Galore
Post 11: Gaining and Losing – Marble Mountain Wilderness
Post 14: Choosing Who to Become
Post 15: Back into the High Country
Between March 26, 1982, and August 20, 1982, Tom and Jamey Dye walked the California portion of the Pacific Crest Trail. This page tracks the highs and lows of that journey while exploring the lives of Jamey and Cheryl Dye’s young love and their processing of Missionary Kid trying to relate to a good Christian girl from Southern California.
I hope you will find entertainment, wisdom, and truth you can apply to your journey in these clips of our lives.
In Christ, Jamey Dye
See my page: Life on the Rock – Life for a selection of spiritual explorations.
Life On the Rock 