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Happiness is Relaxation: Lake Placid
Happiness is Relaxation: Lake Placid If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ~ Herodotus After coming off of the … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, lake placid, olympics, peace, quiet, relaxation, serenity, vacation
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Appalachian Trail Happiness: Pennsylvania Part 2
Appalachian Trail Happiness: Pennsylvania Part 2 As I stated in Appalachian Trail Happiness: Pennsylvania – Part 1, I really liked southern PA. The trails in Southern Pennsylvania were great, a few rock runs but nothing worse than most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, appalachian trail, backpacking, hiking, ice cream, nature, pennsylvania
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Appalachian Trail Happiness: Pennsylvannia Part 1
Appalachian Trail Happiness: Pennsylvania Part 1 One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. ~ Hermann Hesse Amongst AT hikers Pennsylvania gets a really bad reputation, it gets called Rocksylvania, … Continue reading
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Tagged appalachian trail, backpacking, ent, happiness, hiking, pennsylvania, shelters, tolkein
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Happy News – September 9, 2015
Happy News – September 9, 2015 Tonight our tour around the web to bring you the kind of good news that regular and cable news ignores ~ Rev Kane Firefighter lays with child in accident and plays happy feet to … Continue reading
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Tagged good news, gorillas, happiness, happy, happy news, heros, news, positive news, positivity
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Appalachian Trail Happiness: West VA & Maryland
Appalachian Trail Happiness: West VA & Maryland But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. ~ Alan Watts So … Continue reading
Appalachian Trail Happiness: Even More Fantastic Fungi
Appalachian Trail Happiness: Even More Fantastic Fungi One of the things that has really amazed me on the trail have been the mushrooms and other fungi on the trail. I’ve already done one post on a lot of fantastic fungi, … Continue reading
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Tagged appalachian trail, backpacking, fungi, happiness, hiking, mushrooms, photography
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Appalachian Trail Happiness: Maryland
Appalachian Trail Happiness: Maryland Sorry about the lack of images my connection is poor. So, except for a couple of hundred yards I’ve finished Maryland. Not a hard or long state but the seasons have changed, the days are hotter … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, appalachian trail, backpacking, changes, fungi, happiness, hiking, life, Maryland, nature, Spiders
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Appalachian Trail Happiness: On the Road Again
Appalachian Trail Happiness: On the Road Again The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness ~ John Muir So in the morning I board a train … Continue reading
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Tagged appalachian trail, backcountry, backpacking, happiness, harpers ferry, hiking, Katahdin, maine
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Appalachian Trail Happiness: Mt. Washington
Appalachian Trail Happiness: Mt. Washington How glorious a meeting the sun gives the mountains ~ John Muir So not having the opportunity or enough functional knee strength to do Mt. Washington, I decided to ride up it in a tourist … Continue reading
Happiness is Mountain Biking: 24 Hours of Great Glen
Happiness is Mountain Biking: 24 Hours of Great Glen So as I was visiting Mt. Washington, I stumbled into the final installment of the 24 Hours of Great Glen mountain bike race. So I cranked out the camera and here … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 hours of great glen, bike racing, great glen, happiness, mountain bike, mt. washington, new hampshire, photography, racing
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