This isn't a new story, but I just heard about a new delay in sentence today on the local NPR station and had to look up the back story.
[...]FBI agents arrested Hammes in May at an inn in Damascus, Virginia, during the annual Trail Days festival. The inn’s operator and fellow hikers say he was known by the trail name Bismarck, an affable, bushy-bearded hiker who often appeared in photos and online posts with other hikers along the more than 2,000-mile trail stretching from Georgia to Maine.
The more you read, the more bizarre it gets. The pictures are great, too. I love it. I love Kentucky.
Once you get south of I64, and west of I75, there are damn near infinite areas for a resourceful person to live off the land. Lots of meth-heads, lots of pot heads, lots of "der terk our jerbs and guns" types. You go in there with an anti-government message, keep to yourself and don't mess with people's stuff you can hide in plain site for basically ever. Some of the people I know bought 20 acres in the middle of absolutely nowhere because at 20 acres you can hunt turkey and antler-less deer without a permit, dig a well with minimal paperwork and go solar and wind with no neighbors to care about your house as long as it is built to code and not a shanty.
Beautiful country, full of interesting characters that would make awesome NPC's in a weird modern day survival RPG.