I pulled together a photo gallery that shares a daily glimpse into my five-week hike on the CT -- from the start of Segment 1 in Waterton Canyon to the finish line at the end of Segment 28 outside of Durango. Daily mileage included.
The Colorado Trail: Route, Stats and Resources
Coyote's Beauty Secrets
Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover: the Unlikely Teacher who Made Me a Writer
On the first day of second grade, I felt sick to my stomach.
I stood with my two older sisters at the end of the long gravel driveway to our farm, waiting for the bus to pick us up and take us to school in nearby Gilbert, Iowa. It was the fall of 1977, my new teacher was Miss Marjorie Bly, and I wondered what I had done to deserve such a horrible fate.
