auntie | September 12, 2015
12.9 miles; ireland well this day went decidedly better than yesterday. the sun was (intermittently) shining, and there was (intermittently) no rain. that’s not to say there wasn’t a rain shower or three, but still, it beat the all day heavy rain of yesterday. my route took me right back by the blind piper. i’d […]
auntie | September 11, 2015
7.65 miles; ireland today’s hike started in the village of waterville, kerry. and that was an omen! it was raining to start, and never once let up, all day long. at times, the rain was wind-driven, fortunately at my back, but still, and the temps were in the 50’s. it was a most wet, cold, […]
auntie | September 10, 2015
10.49 miles; ireland first day on the trail, and i guess, technically, it should really be coars to mastergheey, because i caught a ride 4 1/2 miles in and then bailed about 5 1/2 miles from finishing. yeah, it was originally a more than 20-mile day. and it also included the highest point on the […]
auntie | September 5, 2015
8.18 miles; hampton, ct i decided to make this my last hike before leaving for ireland, and have i mentioned i plan to be hiking in ireland soon? i will be leaving monday. i’ve hiked here before, but i got rained out that first time, because i only did a small part of this large trail […]
auntie | September 1, 2015
4.65 miles; north stonington, ct as ireland is approaching, and have i mentioned that i’m going hiking in ireland soon?, i feel the need to keep moving, even if the mileage is not as high as i would prefer. so today i just did a little local loop on the narragansett trail, starting and ending […]
auntie | August 22, 2015
8.22 miles; west greenwich and exeter, ri after so many miles of road-walking, this leg was mostly in arcadia management area, and mostly in the woods. yay! it started on hazard road in west greenwich, then entered arcadia through the overgrown parking lot of the old pine top ski area on escoheag hill. from there […]
