auntie | April 6, 2020
.85 miles; Asheville, NC Pretty little trail that follows Hominy Creek. It was only .85-mile long, but the walk to and from was “a bit” longer than that. I totaled 7-1/2 miles on this stroll. Walking through West Asheville is always fun. There are some pretty interesting shops and restaurants, including this one, one of […]
auntie | March 30, 2020
2.1 miles; Asheville, NC Today was a lovely long walk to two very nice greenway trails in Asheville: Reed Creek Greenway and Glenn’s Creek Greenway. They basically meet at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens, which were, of course, closed. Also, a bonus stroll through a technically closed Weaver Park. As I’ve mentioned before, I walk […]
auntie | September 24, 2019
1 mile; Portmeirion, Wales, UK This is the place that the old “Prisoner” TV show was filmed. It was quite surreal. I did a quick little walk around in the surrounding woods, and found a dog cemetery that made me cry. What a cool place! In case you’ve never heard of it, The Prisoner was […]
auntie | September 23, 2019
1 mile; New Quay, Wales, UK We had a lot of trouble even finding the Coast Path here, and gave up and just did a short stroll around town. Lots of lovely front doors in this town! There were still a lot of boats out on the beach? strand? Whatever you call it. The British […]
auntie | August 15, 2019
1.7 miles; Exeter and Richmond, RI Just a short pre-lunch walk with a friend around this pretty little pond. We ambled through the abandoned fish hatchery and stopped to admire the cardinal flowers in bloom. There were also some very attractive joe pye weed plants that seemed to be a smaller variety than the ones […]
auntie | July 25, 2019
Branford, CT This isn’t really an account of a hike, per se, but a visit to an absolutely beautiful little island off the coast of Branford, Connecticut, that I (naturally) first read about in a Peter Marteka column. First some geography: The Thimble Islands, named after the once-ubiquitous thimbleberry bush and a prime source of […]
