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Welcome to a compilation of several of my recent Sweet Spots. Cousins The first is a recent visit to Fort Myers, FL, to touch base with my snowbird cousin, Peggy Peterson and her husband Roger.  Joining us were my brother … Continue reading →

I watched the end of an era last weekend and didn’t even know it. It was the final Park Road Parade in West Hartford, CT, after 25 years.  I don’t make going to parades a habit, except for July 4 … Continue reading →

I drove through Northampton, Massachusetts, the other day on my way up to Ogontz in New Hampshire and came across a pair of cannabis dispensaries located just blocks from each other. The photos below tell you where this is going: Each … Continue reading →

My delightfully foggy paddle on the Swift River in Belchertown, Massachusetts, began with a downpour that started right when I drove into the launch site parking lot and ended fifteen minutes later. It added enough mugginess and cloudiness to the … Continue reading →

I don’t do historical tours very often, but when I do I make sure I go to genuine places.  This one’s from a road trip in 2015 that took me through Long Lake, New York.

I ran across two more giant elephants on the drive up to Connecticut this spring.  They decorate the front of a fireworks outlet located in a former gas station in Hardeeville, SC.  The pump islands are still there and the … Continue reading →

My northeast paddling season is suddenly getting busy.  Today I did a couple of small bodies of water, Lake Beseck and Black Pond, both in the Middlefield-Meriden area of Connecticut, about an hour south of Hartford. Beseck is well populated … Continue reading →

I’ve been in Connecticut for going on three weeks.  The weather’s been cold and/or rainy.  Not great paddling weather.  But today some good paddling friends were going out at Lake Mattawa in Orange, in the very nice north-central part of … Continue reading →

And so are my granddaughters!  All you have to do is look at them…sometimes from one week to the next. The music growth is more subtle, but at concert time it is on full display. That’s when all age groups … Continue reading →

I saw lots of oldies but goodies on a recent visit over to Sarasota on the west side of Florida.  It’s that area of the state, by the way, where the ocean’s in the wrong place and I get north … Continue reading →