Schooled By the Smokies: Life Lessons Learned on the Trail

Wandering Monk went to find himself by hiking through the Smoky Mountains on the Appalachian Trail. Dan Nobles describes himself as boring, but after three tours as an army colonel in the Pentagon and becoming an abbot in the Anglican Benedictine Order, it's hard to think of him as boring.Dan's education includes a bachelor's degree in engineering technology, two master's, and a doctorate in theology. He has served as a military commander, a hospital chaplain, strategic consultant, senior administrator in private schools, mentor to youth, and ordained minister of gospel and church. He is well-acquainted with earthly life and death situations as well as those of eternal consequence.