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A Day at Monument Valley
We recently visited Monument Valley, and it turned out to be one of our best “days on the road”. The only planning done before our visit occurred when I was piecing together our trip home to New England from Tucson. As I was looking at the map, I asked Wife:…
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California Road Trip- Pacific Coast Highway, Pt. 3
Time sure has flown by this winter. I planned to get this final Pacific Coast Highway post up weeks ago, and failed miserably. I guess I was distracted- southern Arizona will do that. Anyway, we’re in our final week here in the desert and plan to head northeast this coming…
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California Road Trip- Pacific Coast Highway, Pt. 2
Our second day exploring the Pacific Coast Highway began in Monterrey. The morning started off overcast, with a light fog rolling in off the ocean. As the morning wore on, the sun started to peek through here and there. We headed south along the PCH towards Carmel-by-the-Sea with Big Sur…
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Insurance insurance- can’t have too much!
It’s getting dangerous on the roadways these days, especially here in Tucson. A day doesn’t go by without major accidents in the city. These crashes seem to usually occur in the vicinity of major intersections and often result in serious injury or death. Motorcycles and pedestrians are also regularly involved,…
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California Road Trip- Pacific Coast Highway, Pt. 1
Recently my wife and I took a road trip through California and a bit of Nevada. Mostly California, spending ten days on the road seeing some of the sights we’d collected on a wish list over the years. Since we’re wintering in southern Arizona again this year, California is close,…
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Mt. Garfield: Is this really the 100th mountain? – July 4, 2024
Yesterday morning I trundled off once again to the White Mountains down in New Hampshire. The plan was to hike up to Mt. Garfield along the trail of the same name, then complete the trip to the summit via the Garfield Ridge Trail. Since returning from Arizona, I’d only been…
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Pondside Garden Update: Start of Summer – June 25, 2024
For those of you that have followed these scribblings, you know that I’ve written quite a lot about our annual gardening activities at Pondside. Here’s a short video showing where we are now, at the start of summer. I do think it’s going to be an excellent year! (Yeah, I…
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Garden Planting & Local Mountains – June 4, 2024
It’s been busy around Pondside since the Table Mountain hike late last month. Garden 2024 has been fully installed over the past two weekends, and I’m again optimistic that it’ll be another great season. Of course, there are always things to worry (obsess?) about. The wet spell we had gave…
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Table Mountain: Another Lesser-Loved Trek? – May 29, 2024
Yesterday I had some business down in North Conway, so I took the opportunity to both continue breaking in my new boots and check off another 52 With A View mountain. I visited Table Mountain. The weather was mostly sunny, with a fair amount of clouds floating through. Temps were…
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Stinson Mountain – April, 24, 2024
In keeping with my effort to stay as far south as possible while continuing to knock out the 52 With A View list, yesterday I rolled down to Rumney, NH to give Stinson Mountain a try. The ride south took a couple hours, and Google directed me to the small…
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