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Trip Reports Originally my Appalachian Trail journal site, Travels and Trails now includes other reports of travel and hiking from around the world. Please stay tuned here, and at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TravelsAndTrails for more of my adventures. Long trips | Short trips | Trails List Long reports - greater than one month Bangkok, Thailand - five weeks in Bangkok, Thailand - 2012 Southeast United States - four months traveling in Florida, the Outer Banks, and Chincoteague - 2012 Southeast United States - five months along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Florida, and coastal Georgia and S. Carolina - 2011 South America - six months in Argentina, Chile, and Peru - 2009 Central America - three months through Gautemala, Honduras, and El Salvador from 2008 to 2009 Southeast Asia - six months through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore from 2007 to 2008 2008 Appalachian Trail section hike and aquablaze - two months from Pearisburg to Harpers Ferry plus the Shenandoah River 2007 Appalachian Trail section hike - three months dawdling from Georgia to Pearisburg 2006 U.S. Road and Hiking trip - 10,000 miles from Boston to the CDT, NM, CO and back My summer in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - working for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, July through September, 2005 2005 U.S. Road trip - 5,000 miles from Boston to the Deep South 2003 U.S. Road trip - 9,000 miles from California to Massachusetts Pacific Crest Trail - from Campo to Mt. Whitney - My journal from 700 miles on the PCT in 2003 Australia and New Zealand - Three months worth of emailed reports from the the southern hemisphere - 2003 Appalachian Trail thruhike - My entire journal from my 6 month 1999 thruhike China and Nepal - Traveling and trekking from September to December, 1997 Shorter reports Antarctica - 20 day cruise to the Falklands (Malvinas), South Georgia, and the Antarctic Peninsula - February to March, 2009 Easter Island - Moai and More - May to June, 2009 Metacomet-Monadnock Trail Section Hike - December, 2004 to October, 2005 Hiking the pinky - Manistee National Forest, October, 2004 Mid-state (MA) and Wapack(NH) trails - a week long trip discovering hiking trails less than two hours from Boston - July, 2004 New Mexico and eastern Arizona - a two week trip exploring the fascinating cultural and natural heritage of the area - March, 2004 Sages Ravine - a weekend along the AT - January, 2004 Celestial happenings! - a moonlight hiking trip report of the 2002 Leonid meteor showers The success of plans B, C, D, and E, a July 2002 trip report: I spent two weeks hiking the Long Trail and Maine 4,000'ers. Taconic Skyline Trail - or so we thought - April, 2002 Day trips with Han Solo - December, 2001 The sky is falling! - a 2001 Leonid Meteor shower report What I did on my summer vacation: July 2001 - I spent a week visiting hiking friends both on and off the trail and managed to get in some Long Trail miles as well. Minor trip reports: Spring 2001 A Weekend on the AT from Vermont to Massachusetts: May 2001 Kicked with my own boot: March 2001 - This is my trip report from my two year anniversary hike of the start of my AT thruhike. Franconia to Crawford Notches, an AT trail description. Kitties in the backcountry: Nepalese style, fall 1997 Paris, France: March 1992 - A week enjoying unseasonably warm weather in late winter. Trail reports These report links may be to entire journals or shortcuts to the appropriate place in longer trip journals. Annapurna Circuit, Nepal, 1997 Appalachian Trail thruhike, six months from Georgia to Maine in 1999 2008 Appalachian Trail section hike and aquablaze, Pearisburg to Harpers Ferry (including the Shenandoah River paddle), 2008 2007 Appalachian Trail section hike and aquablaze, Georgia to Pearisburg, 2007 AT, Franconia to Crawford Notches, a trail description Continental Divide Trail (Southern New Mexico), 2006 Greenstone Track, New Zealand, 2003 Manistee River Trail, Michigan Manistee National Forest, October, 2004 Metacomet-Monadnock Trail Section Hike, - December, 2004 to October, 2005 Mid-state Trail, Massachusetts a week long trip discovering hiking trails less than two hours from Boston - July, 2004 Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia, 2003 Pacific Crest Trail, 700 miles from Campo to Mt. Whitney, 2003 Pinhoti Trail, Alabama 2005 Routeburn Track, New Zealand, 2003 Taconic Skyline Trail - or so we thought, April, 2002 Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand, 2003 Wapack Trail, New Hampshire, a two day trip less than two hours from Boston - July, 2004 Last updated, February 6, 2013.

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