MINNEAPOLIS — Life’s journey takes us down a variety of different paths. The current path for a 78-year-old Longville man is the Appalachian Trail.In March, Egon Overgaard decided to walk the entire trail. He started in Georgia and he’s getting close to the end, in Maine.Sitting comfortably at mile marker 1760, Overgaard had a few minutes to reflect on just how far he’s come. And not just the nearly 2,000 miles he’s hiked, but also the grief he’s trying to leave behind.”In my mind she was as close to a perfect person as I knew,” he said.Overgaard had spent the past few years caring for Carol, his wife of 57 years who was battling a terminal illness. When she died last winter, he was lost, until he found a new purpose.
He remembered the Appalachian trail from his time in the Navy, and walking seemed like good therapy.”I don’t know why it came to me but it did,” he…