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. 8/24/93 – Tue. I did over 25 miles today […]

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We spent a serious day of moseying around the area of our hotel on Sunday. Probably one of my favorite pictures from the trip was a hastily snatched moment of full family cooperation around a dancing bear statue in a courtyard we stumbled upon: We also encountered a massive spider outside the art museum (click […]

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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. 8/23/93 – Mon. As I write, I am seated […]

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This post is heavy on the pictures, light on the text. But, we spent a good chunk of time on the grounds of Canada’s parliament: It was a block away from our hotel, so we wandered down on Sunday morning to watch the daily reenactment of the changing of the royal guard. Which wound up […]

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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. 8/22/93 – Sun. Caught Buck. Long day. 1.4 mile […]

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Our Big Summer Odyssey this year was in our Honda Odyssey and took us up to Ottawa for a couple of days and then on to Rangeley, Maine, for a week. I drove back with the family as far as Providence, RI, on Monday and then flew back to return to work. Julie and the […]

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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. 8/21/93 – Sat. Thursday — 20 miles to Cheshire, […]

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Remember this picture from the original Title This Picture post? Well, we got a number of caption suggestions — only a couple of people actually commented directly on the original post, but we received others via e-mail: Aunt Kim: “I see green people… oops, I mean zucchini” Barbara M. (longtime friend…and landlord-for-a-summer…of Tim’s): “Thirteen flying […]

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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. 8/19/93 – Thu. (NOT – I didn’t make an […]

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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. 8/18/93 – Wed. I didn’t sleep very well last […]

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