In bucolic New England, most of the road signs warning us of wildlife are for deer. These yellow, diamond-shaped warnings litter the streets with ones in more rural settings riddled with rifle and shotgun holes. But starting to travel across New Brunswick towards Charlottetown, PEI, the real concern is moose. Black silhouetted moose profiles decorate […]
Driving through the trees
As we approach the Canadian border, we are on a particularly lonely section of I-95. Few cars are traveling now, letting Ted set the cruise control to 75 mph and relax behind the wheel with The Beach Boys piping in though satellite radio. The moose crossing warnings frequently encountered south of Bangor are no more […]
Boats, bikes and cars
As Ted and I make our way to Prince Edward Island, we have tried to make our journey as simple as possible. After ruling out a flight that would take 14 hours at a minimum, we decided to drive my car. And because Ted lives on Long Island near the Pt. Jefferson—Bridgeport Ferry, I thought […]
Strawberries out, blueberries in
Late June is the cusp of change as the bountiful harvest of strawberries begins to wane and the pale blueberries start to darken indicating that they are ready for the table and the mouth. This year’s strawberry harvest was poor compared to last year’s as the winter claimed at least 70 percent of our plants […]
Sunny volunteers
While many of us look to put together highly planned gardens with everything in just the right spot, sometimes random plantings can be the most rewarding particularly when they find themselves in inhospitable places. I was biking the other morning and was nearing a new Publix that is going up in Islamorada. There used to […]
First melt
The first extended blast of artic air and chill drains hope of future warmth and forces you to settle in for a long winter ahead. This can happen in December, but more often than not occurs in January. It starts off innocently with a lull in the weather and then a sharp drop in temperature […]
Setting Sun
Between the morning dew and the sun, which has dropped below the tree line, my lawn never dries out. After Labor Day it is perpetually slick making it an ideal home for slugs that slither and frogs that hop between clumps of slowly growing greenery. The strands of grass are bent over, rarely able to […]
Le Tour de Geezers: Countdown to the Finish
It’s a beautiful cloudless day and after a quick ferry ride across the Potomac, we are ready and excited to be finishing our trip. Though the trail is 335 miles long we figure that after today’s 38 miles we will have biked somewhere between 350 and 360 miles over our 8 days on the GAP […]
Le Tour de Geezers: Final days
We leave Shepherdstown on another perfect day with no clouds in the sky. As we cross the Potomac to rejoin the trail, old bridge supports are to our right supporting only vegetation rather than a means by which the river can be crossed. A solitary fisherman pushes his skiff out from the West Virginia shore […]
Tiny Towns
This area of the United States has many tiny jewels of history. That was no where more apparent when we finished our day at the towns of Sharpsburg, MD, and Shepherdstown, WV. We first rolled into Sharpsburg on our way to Antietam noticing that nearly every house on Main Street had at least one U.S. […]