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…
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
won 40-21, but honestly? I wasn’t all that into the game (see photo, right). What was cool, though, is that there were dogs all over the place. In the parking lot, on the grounds ne…
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
dogs, in general: “They are a kind of poetry themselves when they are devoted not only to us but to the wet night, to the moon and the rabbit-smell in the grass and their own bodies…
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…
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
one, not two, not three, but four of my dog-friends. In Chapel Hill, I got to meet Bingo, and I have to admit, he’s way cooler than I thought. (I said he looked like a squir…
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…
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 lett…
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…
Bowl Controversy
What is it with Beagle Man and my freakin’ bowls? Has he told you yet, very modestly, that to pull off a trip like this, with all the miles of driving, and the sight-seeing, and the visiting, and the blogging, and staying in a different motel every night, you have to be really efficient and really…
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