auntie | August 31, 2018
1.5 miles; North Stonington, CT This little local Avalonia property has been on my “Hike’s I’d Like to Do” list for a long time, and today I finally got the opportunity to check it out. It’s really quite lovely, but alas, very short. It was also, thanks to recent rains, a mushroom cornucopia. This property […]
auntie | August 21, 2018
4.2 miles; Preston, Griswold and North Stonington, CT Today’s hike was a special treat! I was contacted through this very blog by a member of Avalonia Land Conservancy with an offer of a tour of their newly-acquired Tri-Town Forest Preserve. I asked if I could invite friends, and when he said I could, I posted […]
auntie | August 20, 2018
5.7 miles; Pomfret, CT [Ed. Note: I have been EXTREMELY remiss in posting for the past few months. A lot of personal drama. But I have made a vow to post at least once a day until I’m caught up. So watch the dates on these, as there is quite a backlog.] This hike was […]
auntie | July 31, 2018
2.56 miles; Griswold, CT [Ed. Note: I have been EXTREMELY remiss in posting for the past few months. A lot of personal drama. But I have made a vow to post at least once a day until I’m caught up. So watch the dates on these, as there is quite a backlog.] ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Okay, I […]
auntie | July 31, 2018
3.28 miles; Moosup & Sterling, CT This hike is on what becomes the Trestle Trail in Rhode Island; aka, The Washington Secondary Bike Path. The stretch between the end of the pavement in Moosup and the parking lot on Route 102 in Coventry is in kind of bad shape, but there are supposedly plans to […]
auntie | July 30, 2018
1.38 miles; Pawcatuck, CT They don’t all have to be hikes in the woods, right? My garden club organized a walking tour of the gardens in a 1920’s era village in Pawcatuck, CT. It was a great little walk. Sculpted in 1936, “Bird Girl” by Sylvia Shaw Judson stood in obscurity for decades in Savannah’s […]
