Secret Origin of the High Anglican Hiker

     This special 64 page issue (25 cents) reveals the secret origins of all your favorite superheroes -- Superman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern and our latest addition, The High Anglican Hiker.  The Hiker was raised in the Berkeley and Napa areas during the fifties and sixties and graduated from the University of California in 1970.  It was at UCB that he met his life's companion in ignorance-fighting: Mrs. Hiker.  (It was not long after marrying each other that they discovered their true secret identities as penguins -- but that story must await another special issue.)  After earning a MA at San Francisco State and engaging in thrilling work weighing peach diversion and clean fill, the Hiker embarked upon a ten year crusade against educational indebtedness at the Student Loans Collections Office at UCB.  He was rescued from this purgatorial career by Mrs. Hiker when she relaunched herself into ignorance-fighting as Librarian Woman at Smallville Community College.  There for 22 years she waged a never-ending battle for truth, justice and higher library budgets.  During the last 13 of those years, the High Anglican Hiker did side-kick duty as Part Time Instructor Man, teaching humanities and philosophy to students whose sole reason for taking the classes was to fulfil transfer requirements.  At last, their retirement drew near and, upon mature consideration (the only type they're capable of at their age) they relocated themselves back to the San Francisco Bay Area where the winter precipitation removes itself from the driveway.  'All well and good,' said the High Anglican Hiker, 'but what do I do now?'
     At that point, a deferred ambition reasserted itself.  Back in 2008 at the time of his 60th birthday, the High Anglican Hiker had conceived of a project to walk the entire length of the California Coastal Trail by the time of his 70th birthday.   He got off to a thrilling start during a family trip to Southern California that summer.  While Librarian Woman and their grandson Videogame Boy visited Disneyland, the High Anglican Hiker followed the coast of Orange County from Seal Beach to Balboa Beach.  Further pleasant strolls along the beaches of Sonoma, San Francisco and San Mateo counties followed in 2009.  Then nothing for two and a half years.  Busy-ness and distance sapped his dubious powers.  He discovered that if you plan on walking 1200 miles along the California Coast, it helps to live closer than 200 plus miles from the Ocean!  And so his ambition lay dormant till retirement.  Taking his High Anglican cue from the Prayer Book translation of Psalm 78:65,66 'Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior refreshed with wine.  He struck his enemies on the backside and put them to perpetual shame,' the Hiker cried out 'Eureka!'  He knew what he would do: he would resume his interrupted coastal hike and he would share his adventures with his numerable followers via a blog.
     So, dear readers, prepare to share in the past, present and future adventures of the High Anglican Hiker as he follows the California Coastal Trail in disconnected segments to its conclusion.  Prepare to savor such side trips as he may embark upon and endure such High Anglican opinions as he may venture.  With a hearty, 'It's in the Prayer Book somewhere,' the adventure begins.