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Great Falls Park on the Potomac
We’ve continued south on highways flanked with still-colorful oak and maple forests to Rockville, Maryland, where Ann’s friend Jonathan lives with his wife Lisa. It’s mostly a working visit for me, but I can’t resist a hike in this small national park on the Potomac river. We begin along the old “tow canal” that for…
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Lancaster County Tour
Manheim, Pennsylvania is home to several generations of my family on the Kuhn side, but is almost completely foreign to me. Sue Obetz and grandma Eileen Kuhn, our hosts here, give Dad, Sarah, and I a good survey of the county. Our first stop is the old Abe Wallace farm, which grandma Eileen finds the…
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Sheep and Code in Plainfield, Vermont
For a few years now I’ve been developing websites with my colleague Jason Lemieux of vernalcreative.com, but until now we had never met in person. I’ve always been intrigued by Jason because he balances his career developing websites with running a small sheep farm and raising a family. I always wanted to see how this…
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Visiting Burlington
My aunt and grandmother lavish food and music upon us while we stop in Burlington, Vermont to see them. I haven’t made it out here since my visit on my big bike tour eleven years ago. It’s rare and warm family time. Dinner The wild rain is predicted to continue, but breaks long enough for…
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Plan: Visit Mom
We’re taking our home east of the Mississippi for the first time!
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South Dakota – Lake Herman State Park
Friendly staff welcome us to a near-empty park on a stormy labor day evening. We’re here, strangely, to establish an address in Madison, South Dakota. This is not because we’re going to stay here, but because we’re joining a service (MyDakotaAddress.com) that will help us in several ways while we’re touring. It handles mail forwarding…
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Plan: Visit Deadwood, SD
Residence of another old friend.
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I’m off on a new kind of distance hike
I’m making final online updates from the Institute of Sociometry home office in Denver. Tomorrow Pete and I will set off on the most impulsive, unplanned distance hike I’ve ever done. Our loose objective is to step out from the IS home office doorstep and hike to the Mount of the Holy Cross wilderness to…
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T-Rex Departs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96029174@N00/4830700655/ We return to the site where our experiments with mobile living began in 2005, the Lakeside KOA in Fort Collins. Every time we return somewhere, even a place we’ve only been once or twice, T-Rex returns immediately to his old haunts. Here he scratches a tree that probably bears the marks of his claws…
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Living in Vedauwoo
Vedauwoo is one of our favorite places, so why not live there for a while when it’s nicest? We’ve always dreamed about doing it, and now we’re there!