"Hiking the Appalachian Trail" redux

[Barbara Need]

And the editorial cartoon in today's Chicago Tribune has a fraught-
looking woman say "I suspect my husband's *hiking* on me ...".

Barbara

Barbara Need
Chicago

On 27 Jun 2009, at 5:52 PM, Alice Faber wrote:

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> In the past week, we've speculated as to whether "hiking the
> Appalachian
> Trail" will have legs as a euphemism for something like "disappearing
> for a romantic tryst", in the wake of Gov. Sanford's failed cover
> story
> for his Argentine adventure.
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> This morning I had my radio set to an XM baseball week in review show.
> At it's open, one host welcomed the other back from his vacation on
> the
> Appalachian Trail, and both took great pains to emphasize that he
> *really, really* was *really* *just* hiking.
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