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LA/XC-4 DAY ONE:  POSTING FROM STEPHENS CITY, VA Today’s mileage:  359.3 Total LA/XC-4 mileage:  359.3 Road Music:  ESPN New York; Sirius Radio:  CNN, ESPN, The Highway — new country (going forward, these 3 stations, my on-the-road staples, will be known simply as the “Sirius Cycle” — just a li…

* * * COUNTDOWN: 2 DAYS TO LA/XC-4 * * *

* * *COUNTDOWN: 8 DAYS TO LA/XC-4 * * * You start recognizing the things on your to-do list that you really can’t afford to not get done when you’re up against a hard deadline.  And I’m there — with a cross-country road trip that really needs to start early Friday morning, March 27.  My internal t…

* * *  COUNTDOWN:  24 DAYS TO LA/XC-4  * * * Most of you know the deal.  LA/XC, the series of Beagle Man cross-country road trips, originated back in 2011.  It started as a joke, turned into a promise, became a journey, and evolved into a ritual.  When Robby, back then still a senior at Staples HS…

“Write about him,” Derr said, nodding in the direction of Harry, the low-slung, fruit-sniffing beagle.  We were clustered around the baggage carousel at JFK, last stop on the Zermatt 6 Ski-the-Alps Tour, when Harry made his presence known by poking his snout into Geiger’s duffel.  “There’s your co…

Obviously, I knew I’d be socked in watching Ravens vs. Pats and Panthers vs. Seahawks on Saturday.  And, of course, UConn hoops — vs. Cincinnati.  Robby was still home from college (drove him back to the airport last night), and when Robby’s home there’s no such thing as a football or basketball…

Saturday afternoon in Vermont it snowed — and kept snowing into the evening.  Kemba, being Canadian, was oblivious to the weather (see photo, right); in fact, we were able to gauge the snowfall by how much accumulated on his red coat.  By dinner time, the snow had turned to rain, and then . . . th…

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It’s the Sunday morning of Thanksgiving weekend.  Kemba has just gotten me up, as usual, with his polite but insistent mewling — at 6AM.  As those of you who know the Beagle Man are well aware, this is not my time of day.  Not by a long shot.  It is, however, Kemba’s. By 6:20 we’re heading over to…

The three young men pictured below, all brothers, were victims of severe face-lickings over the Thanksgiving weekend.  Kemba the Toller, an animal of interest, has been brought in for questioning. Please send any information that might be helpful to the Comments section of this blog.  Thank you…