Hiking the AT

We spent this weekend with our friend from Chicago — the intrepid AT thru-hiker, Mystery Chicken (aka Rick Franklin). We picked him up off the Appalachian Trail on Friday and proceeded to have the best weekend of the summer to date. Rick and I went to listen to some bluegrass (and Rick did some banjo [...]

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Quechee Balloon Festival

Mom was visiting this weekend while Bryan was visiting Chicago friend and competitive eater, Tim Brown in Maine (strange, there are no pictures from that!). Mom and I went for a hike on Gile Mountain in the morning and then went to the Balloon Festival in Quechee, VT. There was lots of local color [...]

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