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Liam and I are hiking the Appalachian Trail (AT) during during the first week of March, and for 10+ weeks the next two summers (see our trail journal). We’ll be sporting a SPOT satellite messenger. Watch our progress here or here. We’ll be NOBO from Delaware Water Gap to start, then SOBO from same next [...]

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One of the down sides (and I mean that literally) of living in South Orange, NJ is the beastly hills. To add insult to injury, I actually live near the top of the hill, so that means easy trip downhill to pretty much anywhere, but sweatin’ time on the way home. With all the “stuff” [...]

The recycle load grew a bit taller than usual this week… Big Dummy to the rescue!

Accumulate during the week,  pre-packing, and load… All Dummied up and ready to go — what, you don’t ride your bike to the recycle center?

You gotta hear the music segment on Studio 60′s Christmas episode! Different formats available here. Wow!!! Yea, thats Troy Andrews.

Tired of the headache associated with mixing and maintaining that chainsaw you use every couple of years? Go electric! Its also the green thing to do… Prices are a bit less painful than the gas counterparts. Entry level units are around $75 and top-of-the-line could tag you for up to $250 for a Makita UC [...]

Need a place to steal some ZZZZs? How about a roll in a hammock? Hard-core trail hounds swear by hammocks as they’re versatile, light, and trump about any type of weather from blowing rain to snow to hot sultry nights. Community up, then dig into some research. Favorite manufacturers are Hennessy, Speer, Clark Jungle Hammocks, [...]

Watch and roll…

Quick shots of two new toys from the boyz at Go-Ped — first for the green-hearted, a slimmed down sport version of the commuter-friendly ESR-750EX in the new Sport model. They even knocked a couple of $Franklins to boot (not  to mention 15 lbs)! If your definition of green is that of color rather than [...]