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If you are outside as much as I am, usually the Weather is the first thing you need to know every day. The local satellite image will show cloud cover, while the current radar loop shows any precip. All my weather links are here!
I've always been a big adventure
and travel nut! As a
kid I spent many hours with the family camping down in the Florida
Keys and the Florida Everglades, and in fact
we lived one hour from both of them!. We did long camping trips from Florida
up to Canada almost every summer. I worked three jobs
simultaneously one summer in order to take my first major roadtrip to Prince
Edward Island with Brad when we were both still teenagers. I learned that summer
that life is short and when an opportunity arises, you gotta "go for it".
Four years later I got married and spent two months on a honeymoon tour camping
in Yellowstone, The Tetons, Grand Canyon, etc. After finishing my undergraduate
degree and being overwhelmed with career options, I needed to think about where
I really wanted to be in 20 or 40 years, so I headed out for my first solo Three
Month Roadtrip all across America! But that incredible adventure only
opened my eyes to the possibilities of what one lifetime on this awesome planet
might hold for those who forego the accumulation of materialistic 'things' and
instead really seek out true happiness and love and beauty. I took another 5
month 1990-roadtrip, three more months for
the 1992 Rock-Climbing tour with Ricky, then 4 months
again in 1994. After hearing the hundredth traveler
say "Why do you leave beautiful New England in Summer, then stay there in the
freezing wet cold and snow all winter?", I decided to adjust my timing and the
departure strategy. So in winter of 95-96, I took a four month backpacking
trip throughout Central America.
I hitched and rode the bus all around Belize, Guatemala,
Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
and Honduras. Wow! Was that
ever an eyeopener to how good we have it here in the USA, even though so many
of us here seem unable to find true joy and happiness. At the Panama
Canal, a bunch of the folks I was with at the time were headed south, but I
needed to go home and work for awhile..... until the following year when I took
another four months to check out South America,
including the Galapagos Islands, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru,
Lake Titicaca, etc. Life
has been real good so far!!! Seeing the
world is awesome, so I'll continue with trips like the two-week "Tropical
Marine Field Biology" grad course in the Bahamas that has made education
and learning and travel (and meeting new people!) such an enjoyable part of
life!
New England is truly a outdoor enthusists' paradise!
I've summitted 64 of the 65 highest peaks in New
England, and some peaks I seem to climb 4 or 5 times a year. Mount
Washington is an awesome peak, especially if you skip the last 500
feet to the summit and just hike around on the upper plateau just below the
summit cone.. The spring skiing in Tuckerman
Ravine is incredible even for spectators. Mount
Monadnock is the best climb for the effort anywhere, but go up the rarely-used
trails or during lousy weather to avoid the crowds. Baxter
State Park and Acadia National
Park in Maine are two of my favorite destinations if I have time
for the 6-hour drive. I think we have all done big chunks of the 2000 mile Appalachian
Trail. I can walk from my house to Mount
Watatic, and I've seen a hundred sunsets from
its excellent summit. I can also walk from my house along the Midstate
Trail to Mount Wachusett,
which contains the largest known Old-Growth Forest in the state. One September
I backpacked most of the Long Trail in Vermont;
it is a three hundred mile ridgeline trail from Massachusetts to Canada,
with cabins and lean-tos about every three hours. For those living in Beantown,
the Boston Harbor Islands
are in your back yard. Jump on the ferry and go see what you are missing!
Out west HotSprings were always a favorite hiking
destination; I've soaked for many hours in dozens of natural hotsprings.
I sure wish there were some in New England to soak in after an outdoor winter
weekend!
In the late 1980's I took some instruction
courses with the Appalachian Mountain Club and got heavily
into Rock Climbing and
Whitewater Kayaking. The AMC
is an excellent place to begin learning these skills. When we were both
really in prime shape, Ricky and I spent a whole
summer rockclimbing all across America! A couple years
ago I roped up and climbed up to 19.000 feet on the Cotopaxi
Volcano in Peru just for fun!
A few years ago I finally bought a Mountain Bike
to go with the road bike, and cycling has become my main summer exercise. I'm
definately not a hardcore, I'm just out for exercise and fun, so it is usually
not difficult to keep up with me unless you are way out of shape and never get
much exercise.
Living in a small cabin in the forest on a pond, my decision every afternoon is always whether to canoe, kayak, bike or hike for sunset and twilight!
New England has it all, so get outside and enjoy!
Cape Cod is a vacationland, and I make sure I get there at least two or three times every summer. Camping or the youth hostels are definitely the way to go. The bike trails in the sand dunes near Provincetown are awesome! Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are just a relaxing ferry ride away, so I get to them both at least once a year. Block Island is magical; I've recently discovered a driftwood beachshack built into the cliffs at one of the incredible remote beaches there that is calling for me to do an overnighter at. I'm waiting for a night of building seas, pounding surf, and nearly Full Moon! The tides in New England are wonderful, and some careful planning can allow us to partake of some excellent tidepooling, salt marsh exploration, or walking way out on the mudflats or sandbars! My mudshoes are always drying in the sun, waiting for the next extereme low tide! So get out there and have some fun!Explore the world while you are still able. Kill your television and get out there and "do" stuff every chance you have; it would be the best move you could ever make!
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1987 RoadTrip | 1990 RoadTrip | Hiking List | |
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