Virginia has lizards!!! I started at VA Rt.120, Also known as the Trout Creek Bridge. I needed to go the Dragon’s Tooth, then past the Boy Scout Trail and continue to the Four Pines Hostel for the night. Nature Boy would then take me to pick up my car and in the morning, shuttle me […]

I spent my day yesterday watching a team perform, the way a team should perform. With 100% effort, attitude, and class. Go Hens!

Just a couple of random photos. Top one from Massachusetts, bottom from Virginia. After I hike in VA, I’m sure I want to go back and hike there next. After I hike in MA, I’m sure I want to go back there next. 4 hours north. 7 hours south. 20 degrees difference in daytime temperature. […]

Just wanted to post a few more photos from my first walk in Massachusetts… this place has had a profound effect on me. The land and the people! Drive by shots from Sheffield and Great Barrington! A two floored church. Interesting. Sometimes the flat is so visually beautiful I just stop. This was the very […]

I decided to go north and get my feet wet in Massachusetts. I had ended my Northbound hiking at the CT-MA border some time ago on a hike with my HS buddies, John and Gates. I will never forget that last morning at the Riga Shelter. Stunning! Still ranks as the best sunrise ever for […]

I spent a couple of days last weekend at Penn, rooting for my favorite team. The Women’s Tennis team from the University if Delaware. Of course it’s because my South African friend, Kelly Anderson is their coach. She has two players out in Las Vegas right now competing in the UNLV Fall Invitational. Freshman Jojo […]

That’s the stadium we used when I played football for Temple University. It was just off Cheltenham Avenue. Now there is only a hole in the ground there. I think it was 1970. We played West Virginia there and won, 39-36 on Paul Loughren’s punt return for a touchdown and Joe Injaychock’s intercept in the […]

On my last hike up to Dragon’s Tooth in VA, I came across this caterpillar. At first it scared me! I think poisonous whenever I see odd colors in crawly things. After a bit of research I can say that I’m still a little creeped out by this guy. It’s me. I’m trying to see […]

That would be Dragon’s Tooth. One of what they call Virginia ‘s Triple Crown. Dragon’s Tooth, MacAfee Knob, and Tinker Cliffs are the three. I’ve done them all now. I finished up with Jennie, she went home and I headed up to Big Meadows, as I always do on my way home. I intended to […]

Ever spend 7 days with anyone and enjoy yourself the whole time? Me either. It just happened for me. Streamstopper, that’s Jennie my daughter, and I did a 50 mile section of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. I loved every minute. Could have kept going indefinitely. What a great hiking partner. You may not know […]