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Mileage Update:   Hike  147  Bike  378  Run  240   Drive  31300   HIT THE BEACH   After 4 months on the road touching every corner of the country, we reached San Diego just before Thanksgiving,...

Updated mileage:  hike 147 miles  bike 267 miles  run 164 miles  Drive 28592 Pause  by the Pacific: Our "Here to There Tour" has reached San Diego for a holiday respite.  After wandering around America for 4 months,...

Updated mileage:  Hike 145  Bike 239  Run 146  Drive 20494 West By Southwest After leaving Oklahoma and a brief dash across the Texas Panhandle, we entered the Southwest.  The sights change immediately: different plants,...

Updated mileage  Run 144  Hike 140  Bike 239  Drive 19358 Arkansas Travellers We have allowed our travel to be guided by day-to-day whims.  While traversing Alabama, we thought about heading down to the Gulf Coast on our way...

Updated mileage:  Bike 239 miles Hike 138 miles  Run 141 miles  Drive 19020 Pennies  The sign on the railing above Plymouth Rock said "Do Not Throw Pennies Onto Plymouth Rock".  It would not have occurred to me that a prohibition...

Updated Mileage:   Bike: 207  Hike 134  Run 141  Drive 17758 Sounds of Memphis: We had not intended to stop in Memphis, but daylight was fading as we drove thru the northeast part of Mississippi and into the lowest corner of...

Update mileage:  Bike 207 miles Hike 135 miles  Run 134 miles  Drive 17298 Coast to Coast   Well we have done it--we have seen the sunset over the Pacific Ocean and the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean.  On our journey from...

Updated Mileage:  Bike 202 miles  Hike 131 miles  Run 135 miles  Drive 16676 A Day In Charleston   We were working our way down the coast, trying to get away from the chill weather of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. ...

Updated Mileage:  Hike 131 miles Bike 202 miles  Run 126 miles  Drive 16102 miles A Road By Any Other Name . . .   Driving down a 2-lane highway in rural Connecticut, my navigator suddenly asks, "Is this Boston Post Road you...

current mileage:  Hike 133 miles  Bike 199 miles   Run  121  Drive  16021 Firewood. In the gathering dusk a tiny breath of flame sighs over the crisscrossed sticks of kindling. The fire flares briefly, then fades immediately...

      updated mileage:  bike 199 miles  hike 133  run  113   drive 15218   After leaving the beautiful fall colors of New England, we headed south, thru a lot of small states and small corners of...

    Mileage totals:  Hike:116       Bike:195     Run :110     Drive:15279   Local Color Part I: This morning the thermometer dipped down to 30 degrees...

Mileage updates Bike 195  Hike 111  Run 110   Drive 13579   We have spent the last couple of months avoiding the big cities and now it was time to hit the biggest city of all:  New York City.  The first challenge was...

Updated trip mileages: bike 183 miles   hike 111 miles   run 107 miles  drive 12486   Rhode Island is only 37 miles across, so I must make this descriptive  blog brief, or it will take longer to write than the drive...

Updated mileage: bike 162 miles  run 101 miles  hike 102 miles  drive  12106  The seasons are changing, but it became noticeable all of a sudden a week ago.  We had arrived in Maine, and all of a sudden it was completely...

updated miles   Bike  149    Hike  95    Run   89    Drive   12119     Time on the Maine Coast   It is important for all who are reading this to know...

Followers of the HereToThereTour have by now  figured out that we have new pictures of 207 Main Street each day.    Perhaps it is time to explain.   When traveling cross country the temptation is to speed down the interstate ,...

Mileage updates:  Bike 143    Hike  88.5     Run 86     Drive 11138   Something for Everyone in Pennsylvania   Pennsylvania, the state known as The Keystone State, is approximately 370 miles...

Corrected trip mileage:  bike 148 miles       hike  86.5 miles    run  76miles     drive  10,298 miles   As you know from the preceeding blog, our van blew its...

  We enjoyed Pennsylvana a lot, but we were ready to leave.  But sometimes leaving is hard to do, and this was our biggest adventure so far. During the day we had taken factory tours at the Hershey factory (where they gave us free samples)...

Corrected trip mileage for HereToThereTour: Run: 51.5 mi     Hike: 76.5 mi  Bike: 143 mi  Driving: 8603 mi OUR SCARY ADVENTURE The name of the canyon was almost comical : Turkey Run Indiana  The hike we took...

  Just by chance we arrived in Chicago in time for their yearly jazz festival, so we couldn’t pass up the music, even though it meant an hour-and-a-half train ride into the city from the tiny town of Hinkley. Chicago’s festival covered three stages...

A picture is worth a thousand words .  .   .   .  they capture a moment in time that is unique.  They recall memories that otherwise might  fade with time.  Those of you who know me, know...

As we turned toward the Great Lakes, it seemed that summer suddenly gave way to fall.  We first viewed Lake Superior from Duluth, Minnesota.  The sky was a leaden gray,  the wind had a chilly edge, and the color of the lake matched...

I am sitting at a campground, reading a book by lantern-light and watching a constant parade of insects walk across the page as I try to read.  I flick a bright green fairy-winged insect off my book just as a fat sowbug lumbers into the circle of...