There years ago when Tom and I walked the Coast to Coast trail, my biggest challenges to completing a post each night were intermittent wi-fi connection in stone pubs built several hundred years ago and drooping eyelids after a hiking day that left me completely exhausted.
Read MoreToday’s theme: Oreos and Cookies and Cream (also made of Oreos). But this has little to do with food. We had a special sighting today of grazing cows in a pasture adjacent to our trail with Oreo markings- head and forelegs black, mid section white, rear and back legs black. Some were even Double Stuffed Oreos with an extra wide white section!
Read MoreNow that I have my fourth wind in our first 36 hours with about an hour of sleep, I’m ready to write until my head flops down on the keyboard. Our day began with our last training walk, a 6-miler of 2 outer laps of the Illahee Preserve woods in Bremerton. Go and see this well-maintained hidden gem if you are local.
Read MoreI think it is odd… but, then again, I do it too… that people ask, “Are you ready for your trip? Are you packed?” We all think that packing is simply stuffing a few clothes and toiletries, and, oh yeah, your passport, in a suitcase and calling it good.
Read MoreI’m not a fan of Murphy’s Law by any means. I think it’s silly, and easily disproven. But…every now and then of course life isn’t smooth- yes, even in the days before a vacation. Last week Tom had a fever and a deep cough since. On top of that he contracted swimmer’s itch (maybe?) while lake fishing and soon the rash covered his whole body.
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