Tom Heck contacted me about a cabin he had built back in 1983 and he wanted to share his story with you. Here is Tom to tell you his story.
In the spring of 1983 I was finishing up my second year at Virginia Tech. I felt lost and frustrated at school. When I came to VT I thought I wanted to be an engineer but that wasn’t working out.
I decided I needed to clear my head by taking on a big challenge and I narrowed it down to either hiking the Appalachian Trail or joining the Marines.
When I was deciding what to do I met a guy named Eddie, a local who owned property about 10 miles from campus.