August 14, 2019 Our first three miles of the Oregon Coast Trail is a shakedown for the rest of the trip. The Fort Stevens State Park staff who registered us for the Hiker Biker Site said we could park our van there for the extent of our trip! They are really supporting us as hikers, …
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Journey to the Oregon Coast Starts Today!
August 10, 2019 We’re headed to Oregon! Today, John and I will wrap things up in Ohio and begin our cross-country drive to Oregon. John has been researching the Oregon Coast Trail (OCT), learning that it’s quite different from the Eastern US trails we’ve walked! It’s relatively level It goes through or near towns frequently …
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Thruhiker Celebrity?
“Thruhikers are celebrities!” I read that in a women’s hiking group and chuckled. I don’t feel special! I walked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia within a year’s time, so I am a thruhiker. As a thruhiker, how I know about myself is that I fulfilled my dream of being able to say, “I …
Deepening Practices
June 9, In everything I do, I strive for deepening my sensory and spiritual experience. I’m pretty sure you do too! I’ve picked up on some techniques from John Muir Laws (his real name!) through his Laws Guide to Nature Journaling. Two years ago, I launched a program at the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor …
Raingear Success
July 28, 2017 Rain pelted down outside Thomas Knob Shelter, high on the ridge near Mt. Rogers, VA. Redhat, my companion for the week, and I sat happy and dry in the shelter at one o’clock in the afternoon! That’s pretty early in the day to settle in camp, but the continuing rain, predicted to …
Connection
July 25, 2017 Is “connection” something that comes to us or something we choose to acknowledge? When the woman walking with me this week said, “I know I’m connected to God, but I just don’t feel it! Maybe when I feel that connection, I’ll feel more confident out here.” As I walked through the magnificent …
Intown Ingenuity
September 12, 2106 I bought a backpack in Waterbury. It’s very cool, emblazoned with “I ♡ 1 Direction” and a photo of the boyband. “Whaaat?” you say! Actually, it’s perfect…….because… It has a zipper! My pouch needs a new zipper, and this backpack has a good one. I can cut it out and use it. …
Town Food
June 12, 2016 I can’t eat what most hikers eat! Here’s what we bought at Food Lion in Front Royal to rejuvenate and celebrate completing our first hundred miles of this trip. First, we did step one of our three step Don’t- Buy-Too-Much-In-Town plan: go in and buy something to eat right now and leave …
Little Things
June 11, 2016 I have a list of small mishaps that we’ve been able to deal with and keep going. HeartSinging walking reflects how gracefully I can dance with the little things. **Broken watchband. My cheap fake leather watchband snapped. Irritating! The good thing was that I noticed that it had fallen off. I threw …
Frustrated to Confident
June 1, 2016 Today was a transition day from feeling frustrated with the technical challenge of setting up an RSS feed of my blog to my subscribers and Facebook page to feeling confident that it can actually work! Thanks for reading! The second accomplishment of the day was to pack our backpacks! I’m happy to …