We are never prepared for what we expect (Movie Review: “Wild”)

We are never prepared for what we expect.  So wrote novelist James A. Michener.  That thought sums up the life-transforming excursion in pursuit of self-awareness, some might even say an identity, ventured by writer Cheryl Strayed back in 1995, when she embarked upon a grueling three-month, 1,100-mile journey entirely by foot, along the Pacific Crest Trail.