An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Category: Travel

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Photo Friday: The Big Easy

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    The snow west of Texas had turned us around. Our road trip had begun on the East Coast and we had reached as far as Amarillo, but could go no further. Our destination had been to reach the “Four Corners”. The only place in the U.S. where four states meet: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New…

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    snowpackjack
    a jazz musician plays a trumpet pointed at the sky on a city street near Bourbon st. in New Orleans.

  • House On A Rock

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    When I worked in Newport, down near the mansions, I often found myself taking a break just before sunset, standing on the cliffs near Ram’s Head in Newport, Rhode Island. Looking towards the Newport Bridge, I could watch the schooners ply the waters off Newport Harbor. Occasionally an “out of towner” would spy the house.…

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    snowpackjack