auntie | April 6, 2019
9.5 miles; West Greenwich and Coventry, RI and Sterling, CT I called this Day 2.5 because it’s the dreaded Day 3 18-mile section, and I just didn’t feel up to 18 miles. Instead, I met my pals Mel and Bob at Pinetop and hiked the last 9+ miles with them. The detour wasn’t as bad […]
auntie | March 28, 2019
4.5 miles; Stonington, CT I know I kind of swore off this place due to all the dogs, and then it turns up on this year’s Sky’s the Limit challenge. Thankfully, it wasn’t at all bad today. One loose dog who had zero interest in me… he just wanted to run, run, run, along with […]
auntie | March 28, 2019
1.5 miles; Waterford, CT I have only been here once, at that was for the annual dinner of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. So I didn’t really know what to expect. I dunno. While I appreciate the fact that, after their deaths, the original owners of this place donated the property to the state, […]
auntie | March 20, 2019
1 miles; North Stonington, CT It’s been a while since I was able to get up here for the Equinox celebration in my town. Glad I got back to it. It’s always a strangely thrilling experience hiking up in the dark, and this year we had a full moon, too. It was darned cold this […]
auntie | February 23, 2019
3.1 miles; East Lyme, CT It’s been a tad over 7 years since I last hiked here, and I guess I really didn’t see that much of it the first time because I found a whole ‘nuther set of trails that went over the Amtrak tracks and to a gorgeous old building that fronts the […]
auntie | February 10, 2019
6.5 miles; Groton, CT This was mostly a revisit to a place I hiked with my friends Stacy and Dallas back in April of 2017. Through this blog I was asked by someone at the Rails to Trails Conservancy if I had any pictures of the trail from that original hike. Turns out I didn’t have any […]
