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I’ve got the willing friends - maybe I can convince the State we need to recreate the journey….

As a historian, I occasionally have the rare luck of combining work with pleasure - today I was able to take the time to go down a...

Strong dark maduro cigars & scotch. Lots of scotch. And gin. And often rum. I like to sip my dessert.

SAD about the 10 day wait for this instalment! Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that's related to changes in...

I actually had better luck with the camera-shy white bird after that (I’m told they’re Egrets). I briefly wondered if a second picture...

As mentioned previously in my Allegheny Islands report, 2025 has been unusually dry in Western PA and, by mid-October, we were in...

September 2 - Day 14 Distance: 19.6km (Total 211.5km) Time: 5hr 30m Caltopo Map: https://caltopo.com/m/B8MTMST I was up just...

September 1 - Day 13 Distance: 14.1km (Total 191.9km) Time: 4hr 12m Caltopo Map: https://caltopo.com/m/B8MTMST Just after getting into...

"Just after getting into my sleeping bag last there was an outbreak of avian anger(?), a gaggle of geese were honking. The wet sand...

2025 - The Day After The night I was dropped off by the side of the tracks was so horrible I have been unable to write about it. It...

Ok, so we all know the Toronto bluebirds are playing in the special baseball series or whatever it is - and between the silly games and...

This is fellow forum member Penns Woods today on Hitchens Pond in the Adirondacks.

Love the guerrilla tape patch job. Glad to see that’s an internationally known solution!

Those places still exist. If you asked me to find my house keys I wouldn't even know where to look. Probably buried at the bottom of the...

I had a flashback to a teenage trip with friends, where companions dumped their rented Grumman. The bow paddler’s immediate, overriding...