Entries from June 2008

Alana Turns Three

Date June 19, 2008

June 17th was Alana’s third birthday.  We had a pizza party with cake and presents.  Helping Alana celebrate were her brothers, Grandma Marilyn, our neighbors Austin, Nate, and Gabriella and Benton’s friend, Nick. I present you… a three year big girl…

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 19-Jun-1993

Date June 19, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 6/19/93 – Sat. 19+ miles today including one pretty […]

Memory Lane: Anyone for a Julie/Tim Early Dating Anecdote?

Date June 18, 2008

Julie and I headed to our first college reunion a couple of weekends ago. We stayed with my closest friend from college and his boyfriend (recently engaged — we’ll be heading back to Massachusetts some time in the next year or so for our first wedding in ages!), and Julie convinced her closest friend to […]

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 18-Jun-1993

Date June 18, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 6/18/93 – Fri. (Evening) We left Damascus right at […]

A Cooler Climate Does Not Mean Less Shedding

Date June 17, 2008

Ahhhh. Summertime. In a house with just-barely-off-white carpet. And two black dogs. Julie brushed Elwyn for 10 minutes and got the above results. You can imagine what our carpets look like within 15 minutes of being vacuumed.

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 17-Jun-1993

Date June 17, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 6/18/93 – Fri. (Morning) This is sort of last […]

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 16-Jun-1993

Date June 16, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 6/16/93 – Wed. We walked a fairly easy 13 […]

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 15-Jun-1993

Date June 15, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 6/15/93 – Tue. I made 18.4 miles today and […]

When Good Omens Portend Bad Travel

Date June 14, 2008

As I was driving from Chicago to Columbus in a driving rainstorm at 4:00 this morning, I got to tallying up my 2008 travels…or…er…travails to the West Coast. Four trips so far in 2008 — three to California, one to Victoria, British Columbia — and none of them were for more than two nights (two […]

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 14-Jun-1993

Date June 14, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 6/14/93 – Mon. A day of firsts: first day […]