Ireland and UK Day 24: Mousehole and the South West Coast Path 

Friday, July 14, 2023 It’s absolutely chucking it down when we wake up this morning. Steve had warned us yesterday that it was supposed to rain today, and raining it is. I check the website for St. Michael’s Mount, which we’d really like to visit while we’re here, but they say they’re closed today due …

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Great Seal Sate Park Part 2: Signs of Spring

Wiggs and I were so impressed by our first visit to Great Seal on March 5 that when another Friday rolled around we decided to make a second visit. This time, on March 19, it was exactly two weeks later. In the spring, two weeks can make a big difference. The first time we went …

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Winter Hike in Hocking Hills

A week and a half ago I started feeling the beginnings of a sore throat, and then the next day I woke up with a fever. I decided to get a Covid-19 test, and it was positive. I have been in self-isolation for the past nine days with persistent fatigue, lack of taste and smell, …

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Wildcat Hollow: December 9, 2020

Keeping my writing up-to-date is one of my numerous New Year's resolutions. I struggle to write as often as I'd like, despite the fact that, if I'm honest with myself, I really do have the time. But instead of updating my blog I sometimes decide to do things like binging all of The Queen's Gambit …

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