Sunset Road

A few weeks ago, Rich and I took a drive around the area to seek out good photo locations. On our way home from Waverly, right at a sweeping bend to the left heading toward Route 438, we noticed a blocked off, abandoned road heading east. We returned today to check it out. Read More ...

(In the Face of) Death Hike XXV

Twenty five years! Yes, this year is the twenty-fifth annual Death Hike outing. This event has been a consistent feature for more than half of my life now, through all kinds of weather from snow to 39° deluges to 100° thunderstorm days, trail closures, hiking onto prison property, jury duty, house moves, marriages and divorces, a multi-year global pandemic … basically all of the things that make up our lives. No matter how much or how little of each other we see during the rest of the year, it is a given that Ken, Gina, some students, and I will gather in May to celebrate whatever life has given us over the past year.

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Acadia Adventures 2022 – Day 1

We were having trouble all week deciding what time to head out on our annual journey to Maine. Our first thought was to try leaving the house around midnight like we did, successfully, in 2017. After a pretty routine morning and afternoon (if you can ignore the three solid days of nonstop rain that resulted in 4.3 inches in the gauge and persistent showers over us all morning and afternoon … we couldn’t ignore them), we lay down for some rest around 6:45pm and planned to get up around 10. We kept close to that schedule, getting up around 10:15, having a small snack of frozen pasta and veggies, and leaving the house at 11pm.

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