LazCon Miscellaneous Musings

single fields are thousands of acres

from the top of a hill while still many miles from town. a few hours later i a.m. magically here. the slow march goes on and soon it will disappear behind me.

but i am walking thru the magnificent seneca river wetlands and an eagle is circling low overhead as i walk past it’s nest. every day has its fresh surprises. laz

cannot find my happy place this morning. i know the worst of the climbs that trash my legs and those nightmare descents that brutalize my back are behind me… but i cannot find my happy place today. 400 miles is just a long way. and it feels like it. maybe Read more…

after 390 miles i am eating lunch at a cafe instead of a diner and quaffing a birch beer rather than a root beer (not sure how far it is to civilization and dr pepper) it was only yesterday i could get real chocolate milk for the first time! laz

they only have one weather forecast here. today it will be raining and cold all day…. but the rest of the week will be sunny and warm. the problem is, every day when i wake up it is today again. this today marks the 7th day of rain out of Read more…

300 miles down 3000 miles to go…. more or less laz

if I think of anything when I think of Massachusetts it is rock. rock is used for everything and, especially it is used for walls. I have seen all manner of walls. drystack and mortared decorative and plain retaining and freestanding decorative and functional. every sort of wall there is. Read more…