I come from where the rivers meet the sea That’s part of why I’m so wild and fancy free -Jimmy Buffett “Floridays” Among my lifelist trips is a kayak journey through Everglades National Park, the swampy and massive sponge of biodiversity in southwest Florida. I remember as a child boarding a small motor boat, the [...]

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Expect crowds, mud and history at Stratton

by davepidgeon on August 10, 2009

This was a Tuesday. And already I began to count in my head how many thru-hikers and other backpackers would be spending the night at the Long Trail/Appalachian Trail shelters along Stratton Pond in southern Vermont. The number? No less than two dozen. On a Tuesday night in August. Not Friday or Saturday nights. Middle-of-the-work-week [...]

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Still on Costa Rican time

by davepidgeon on April 16, 2009

A phenomenon occurs whenever you travel to Costa Rica. No matter what your daily time schedule back home, you slip into Costa Rican time on your first full day. Costa Rica is located in our central time zone, but they do not recognize daylight savings, which puts them two hours behind the east [...]

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