An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Category: Journeys

  • Down To The Sea

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    Your old buddy Jack also loves a good trip, and if not by land it can be by sea.

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    snowpackjack

  • The Long Trail- Section One

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    The 272 mile Long Trail is the nation’s oldest continuous footpath. It includes part of the Appalachian Trail sections in Massachusetts and Vermont, before diverging and continuing to the Canadian border.

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    snowpackjack
    A lake in the center of the frame is surrounded by lush green vegetation under a blue sky on Vermont's Long Trail

  • Une vie de chat

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    The world had been a blur passing by the windows of the air conditioned rail car. Now wandering through a small village, I watched a group playing pétanque in a leafy court. I was not alone.

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    snowpackjack
    a black and white cat sits in a window.

  • Do you have this luxury?

    OK here goes, Old Jack is going to dig in deep on this one. What items can be considered a luxury? I guess that would depend on who you are and where you are. Living in the United States, I fear we consider many luxuries to be necessities. When I was a young child, my…

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    snowpackjack