NET: Day 12 Air BnB

August 28, 2018 We got an early start just after dawn and without cooking breakfast because it was so buggy at our tentsite! We soon came to a view of our future, an overlook of the Farmington River. From our precipice, we looked down on the small town of Tarriffville. We speculated about the origins …

NET: Day 16 Diverse

September 1, 2018 Today’s 15 miles took us through a diverse tour of habitats and popular hiking areas, continuing our mostly eastward “noodling” through the green spaces near Meriden. We got off from Johnson’s Inn by 8 a.m. and walked through the neighborhood starting on Spruce Brook Road, turning where the blue blazes seemed to …

NET:Day 11 Connecticut Begins

August 27, 2018 Soon after we got started, we reached the bog bridging the farmer at Calabrese Farm Store had told us about. It was, indeed, a significant project, and a welcome dry crossing of the bog! Just a short way south, we came to a small road with residences. The trail followed a wide …

NET: Day 7 Rugged

August 23, 2018 We got an early start from our hidden tentsite, soon reaching a sign that said “Queen Street”. I saw only trail, so didn’t know what Queen Street meant. We were getting near Amherst. Maybe Queen Street left town and kept going into the forest. A good question there! The forest seemed typically …

NET: Day 14 Peaches and Cliffs

August 30, 2018 We enjoyed our luxurious hotel stay until 10 a.m., with breakfast, of course! I did eat a Belgian waffle, reasoning that its wheaty flouriness would be digested during my day’s exercise before it’s damage could be done, or some similar version of denial. Considering the number of cliffs we walked up and …