Monthly Archive: May 2024

17 miles- “Chagrin n. -distress or embarrassment at having failed. v. -feel distressed or humiliated,” is the dictionary definition. So how does a nice clean river in northeastern Ohio get saddled with a name...

17 miles- 1868, 1883. 1887, 1912, 1922, 1936, 1941, 1948, 1952, and 1969 were the years that we are sure the Cuyahoga River caught fire. There are probably others, but they weren’t recorded. I...

Pleasant night at the Heritage Farm CG. Up at 6:15 to a pretty sunrise and then I walked the half mile to the Peninsula Coffee Shop for breakfast. (I know, tough life.) When I...

16 miles- Two geological events set the stage for my blog today. About 350 million years ago a great river flowed out of what is now eastern Canada. The silt it carried settled into...

0 miles-Today was a “zero miles walked on the trail” day. Instead I spent much of the day touring the Seiberling Estate about a mile and a half from here. You may recall that...

18miles- The rain yesterday finally let up a little after 8PM. Over all I was hiking and or camping in the rain for more than 12 hours. Fortunately it wasn’t raining this morning when...