Beagleman

Depart From Beagle Man’s Plan? I Don’t Think So . . .

So it turns out we did hike the Lye Brook Trail after all, even though Beagle Man wrote in his last post that we Me on the Lye Brook Trail couldn’t. About an hour-and-a-half before we were supposed to leave VT on Friday, the…

Why Ricky Gets Dragged Along On All My Hikes

Hiking Bromley: We didn’t “summit,” but we had a great time 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 t…

Beagles and Bantams and Bears, Oh My!

On Saturday I went to Hartford to see my real good friend Rob G. play football, Trinity against Bowdoin. Trinity Catching up on some sleep during the game . . . won 40-21, but honestly? I wasn’t all that into the game (see …

Myself As Muse

Mary Oliver’s a famous poet, and she just came out with a book called Dog Songs. Here’s what she has to say about Is Mary Oliver’s Ricky . . . dogs, in general: “They are a kind of poetry themselves when they are devoted no…

LA/XC-3: Still?

LA/XC-3 SUMMARY LA/XC-3 2013 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…

Arriving At Destination

Less than 48 hours later . . . LA/XC-3 2013 LA/XC-3 DAYS TWENTY-SEVEN AND TWENTY-EIGHT: CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA; ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, AND WESTPORT…

Nolan, Toby, Bingo, and Brinkley

Finally, we got on a roll! After three-and-a-half weeks of visiting people, the last few days of our trip we visited not Brinkley and me: Just two beagles chillin’ one, not two, not three, but four of my dog-friends. In Cha…

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

LA/XC-3 2013 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 m…

Switcheroo?

All right, so where the heck is the Pathfinder??? I could swear we left Westport in it. And I’m positive we were still driving it when we reached L.A. But today I woke up from just a quickie little nap and saw GMC on the center of the steering wheel where NISSAN used to be! (Yes, I know my le…

Guitar Hero

LA/XC-3 2013 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 Tw…