Those of you following his walk will know Daryl finished his JOGLE yesterday with an 11-mile stroll from Penzance to Land’s End. He got off to a very rough start, with a horrible blister and great trouble finding appropriate boots, … Continue reading
On Friday, I joined B, M, and P on about a 10-mile loop in Connecticut’s Northwest corner, mostly on the white-blazed Appalachian Trail, but also on one of Connecticut’s blue trails, this one wonderfully named Paradise Lane. We had our … Continue reading
Derek Emslie’s response to Doug Bruce’s recent post on the Challenge message board, in which he described current conditions in the Lairig Ghru, reminded me of a chapter in Alastair Borthwick’s classic from the ’30s, Always a Little Further. This … Continue reading
I’ve had a complaint. My recent posts have not been interesting. I should get back to hikin’ and stuff. So here’s an annotated, illustrated list of what I’ll be humping across Scotland beginning two weeks from Friday. Random stuff rides … Continue reading
We took H to the airport in late afternoon today to see her off back to Minnesota after a wonderful long weekend together in which we chauffeured her north for what turned out to be long, taxing, but satisfying interviews … Continue reading
We were in Hanover, New Hampshire, over part of the weekend, and we stepped over to the corner by the Inn, where this plaque is fixed in the sidewalk. Stepping a few feet to the east (the plaque in the … Continue reading
We picked H up at Bradley Airport last night, and drove her north for some residency and fellowship interviews. She’s almost six months into her pregnancy, and warned us accurately that “I’m a little bigger than I was the last … Continue reading
We can caption this shot, “Okay, how much of this junk can I pull out of here and leave home…?” My loads are always lumpy, poorly organized, and just barely fit the space available. When H was little and I … Continue reading
Just about everything is set, but I haven’t done this kind of walking in a long time, and I’m working out my organization. I was out with the pack this morning, and it felt fine. Weight will vary, of course, … Continue reading
I’m often dipping into a wonderful book called Visions of Jazz, by Gary Giddins. He is my favorite writer on jazz, and was one of the primary “faces” in Ken Burns’s documentary of that name. This book is essentially a … Continue reading