Posts by Hank

Ricky? Ronnie? Reggie?

I must have told the story about how Ricky came to be “Ricky” a thousand times: How Robby, then 9, named his beagle puppy for Ricky Williams, the Miami Dolphins running back, and his ultimate hero at the time. How when Williams retired unexpectedly at age 27, two days before training camp, Robby…

Andrew’s Army

Something a little different today. One of Beagle Man’s very favorite kids in the entire world, Andrew Accardi, passed away last week at the age of 20, after battling pediatric neuroblastoma for 15 years. My own personal remembrance of Andrew will be in tomorrow’s print version of the Westport Ne…

Why Ricky Gets Dragged Along On All My Hikes

Am up in VT. Came here Wednesday night, straight from teaching my writing course in Hartford. It always occurs to me when I reach Trinity that I’m 1/3 of the way to VT and pointing in the right direction — so this time I continued on. According to my internet weather site it was supposed to rai…

LA/XC-3: Still?

LA/XC-3 SUMMARY Total state tally LA/XC-3: 24 (Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware); l…

Arriving At Destination

LA/XC-3 DAYS TWENTY-SEVEN AND TWENTY-EIGHT: CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA; ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, AND WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT Day Twenty-seven mileage: 260 Day Twenty-eight mileage: 304 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 7,978.4 (FINAL!) Road music: Sirius cycle; Eric Church (Carolina, Chief, Sinners Like…

You Never Know Who You’re Gonna Run Into In Nashville

LA/XC-3 DAYS TWENTY-THREE, TWENTY-FOUR, TWENTY-FIVE, AND TWENTY-SIX: NASHVILLE, ATLANTA, AND CHAPEL HILL Day Twenty-three mileage: 462 Day Twenty-four mileage: 37 (in and around Nashville) Day Twenty-five mileage: 252 Day Twenty-six mileage: 393 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 7,414.4 Road musi…

Guitar Hero

LA/XC-3 DAYS NINETEEN, TWENTY, TWENTY-ONE, AND TWENTY-TWO: LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO; MARFA AND AUSTIN, TX; HOPE, ARKANSAS Day Nineteen mileage: 454 Day Twenty mileage: 399 Day Twenty-one mileage: 408 Day Twenty-two mileage: 397 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 6,270.4 Road music: Sirius cycle; Litt…

Pushing the Envelope

LA/XC-3 DAYS FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, SEVENTEEN, AND EIGHTEEN: PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, SANTA CRUZ, BERKELEY, SAN FRANCISCO, SANTA MONICA/L.A;, EL CENTRO Day Fifteen mileage: 243.9 Day Sixteen mileage: 392.9 Day Seventeen mileage (in L.A.): 20.8 Day Eighteen mileage: 248.0 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 4…

Highway 1

LA/XC-3 DAYS TWELVE, THIRTEEN, AND FOURTEEN: L.A./SANTA MONICA, AND THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY FROM SANTA MONICA TO CAMBRIA Day Fourteen mileage: 238.7 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 3,689.2 Road music: Joe Walsh (Analog Man); Neil Young (After the Goldrush; Greatest Hits); John Fogerty (The Long Roa…

Welcome to Paradise!

LA/XC-3 DAYS EIGHT, NINE, TEN, AND ELEVEN: BRYCE CANYON, UTAH; HOOVER DAM, NEVADA-ARIZONA; L.A. AND SANTA MONICA Day Eight mileage: 337.4 Day Nine mileage: 326.2 Total LA/XC-3 mileage (to Loews Santa Monica): 3,251.0 Road music: ESPN Radio — and because it’s California, and Friday, the…