Top 11 Real Reasons South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Mysteriously Disappeared To Hike The Appalachian Trail

11. Looking for Bigfoot

10. Publicity stunt for his cameo appearance on next season's premiere episode of Lost

9. He's got four boys at home, can you blame him for wanting to get away?

8. Got a killer pair of boots on sale at REI and just had to try them out

7. Trying to prove his presidential timbre by taking on the most feared of all wilderness creatures: the Georgia swamp rabbit

6. Trying to develop a taut buttocks to compete with Tim Pawlenty in 2012

5. Reenacting his favorite scene from "Deliverance"

4. Desperately trying to get in shape before Obama health care plan hits

3. Like Sean Penn, really admired Christopher McCandless and wanted to imitate him after a viewing of Into the Wild

2. South Carolina legislature passed a resolution to send him on a snipe hunt

1. Fleeing from Federal officials who are chasing him down with stimulus $s