Paris Review - My First Time

New series of videos produced by The Paris Review in collaboration with filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks and Luke Polling. Here is the link to the Paris Review YouTube Channel where the series is being posted.

https://www.youtube.com/user/theparisreviewable

One More Item Off The Bucket List & More Brownies

WIth a slight adjustment in our plans we will now include a trip to the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, NY. We have been cooking out of their cookbooks for years, and now a chance to see how their stuff is supposed to taste.

We also think we solved a logistical bottleneck in Glacier National Park. We will add one more night at the front of the stay at Brownes Hostel and Bakery, then camp in the park for a few days then a couple more at Brownies, then we movie on to Waterton. 

Phase 2 Planning

This is the update for the second leg of our trip. Couple of open spots but there is a fine line between not having a place to stay and the surrender to the serendipity. We hope we are walking the line.

Leaving Cheboygan we will travel to Ashland WI, staying at an inn that got great reviews. The Apostle Islands are nearby. From there it will be a short day to Bemidji  where will explore the Paul Bunyan State Rail Trail and associated trails for a couple of days. Then a long day to Medora ND to stay in the Amble Inn, and then into Theodore Roosevelt National Park for a couple of days. Then up,a few TBA days ending up in East Glacier to stay at the Brownie's Hostel & Bakery on July 23rd. We then want to work our way into Waterton in CA with full plans yet to be determined. Check the Calendar Tab, and Map tab as we will be updating there.

Ode to Joy

We did a 30 mile ride on this beautiful late spring morning. There is poetry in Woodstock when you turn right onto Joy Road. I am blessed to live in a very pretty place of hayfields, stonewalls, and curvy roads of rolling hills. Of all of places Joy Road is always true to it's name. Your heart leaps as you know you have over a mile of swooping curves and rolling breakers. You finish one hill with speed and power up and over the next to settle back in for the next part of the roller coaster. And at the bottom, Sweet Evalina's Stand with tempting treats as you mark the halfway point of the ride.  We found joy, patriotic cows and a stone mile marker in Abington. Great ride, and the back problems I have been suffering were not a problem for most of the ride.

Breakfast from the Natchaug

Nice trout that gulped a fly deep into his throat. Getting it out caused enough damage that he was not going to make it on release. Took it home for a breakfast snack.

Lunch

Lunch at Passiflora Tea House and Herbal Shoppe, New Hartford.

Trial Run #2 - No Fish for Breakfast

Camping weekend #2 to work out more kinks in our systems. At Austin Hawes Campground on the Farmington River in American Legion State Forest, one of our favorite CT camping spots. One of the best trout streams in CT. Alas no fish for breakfast as they were beyond the skill of this fisherman and it is a catch and release section of the river anyway. Note to Mike Babinski - below note that I do pay attention on how leading lines and foreground objects contribute to composition. Note to Doug Hammerstrom - thanks for teaching me about fly fishing.