It's been a long time since I've written in a blog. Since I discovered Facebook I guess I've fallen for the McPost. The disadvantage being that I don't take time to compose my writing.

Despite the fact that summer weather has been practically nonexistent, we are getting into the Late Summer/ Early Fall. THis time of year has always been the ( Read more... )

[This walk took place on Sunday, May 29th]

South Hill is often referenced as part of Puyallup.  In fact it is part of unincorporated Pierce County.  South Hill is an historic name given to the area by the locals.  North Hill is now where you find Edgewood and Milton.

The Volksmarch on South Hill  wasn't much.  I had to work at finding some pictures ( Read more... )

Walked May 20, 2011

Enumclaw was flat.   Flat like Sumner and Puyallup.   I think my change in elevation was about ZERO feet.   Mostly just a walk through both manicured and and weedy neighborhoods.  The weedy neighborhoods have as much character though and are fun to walk through.

I really didn't think I had much to take pictures of until I got home ( Read more... )

I walked the Bremerton Volksmarch again.  I last walked it last year on April 18 of 2010.   I wanted to get a walk in today with this surprising good weather, before the rain comes in tomorrow.  [That's all the spring you get folks!]

There have been a number of changes to the route.  Nolonger does it go through the trails in the Stevens Canyon Park ( Read more... )

Most of my posting has been on FB.  I suppose I've neglected LiveJournel a bit.

I've been busy despite not having a job.  A lot of my time has been online job hunting, but I've certainly kept busy in other ways.  One thing I've done is try to keep to a schedule.  It would be so easy to sleep in every day and slug about, but it certainly wouldn't be ( Read more... )

I looked at the weather radars this morning and determined that I could pull off a walk today.  There was a break in the clouds approaching the Chehalis Gap, and I figured I could walk the 10K Lacey walk without so much as a sprinkle.

By the time I got down to Lacey there were indeed a few sprinkles on the windshield.  It didn't start ( Read more... )

--{Walked on October 15, 2010}--
This was the day before our rain storm.  I knew I had a small window of opportunity.

Back in my High School Daze I was a member of the Invitational Choir.  We were a Swing choir when everyone else was doing Jazz.  One of the things our beloved director, Mr. Olmsted {Big "O"], did for us was to take us on a ( Read more... )

--{This walk took place Friday, September 10th}--

This was an old home town walk.  It went by the house I lived in between 1959 and 1965.  The walk itself was not spectacular.  I'd give it a 5.
But the fact that it went through my old haunts was fun.    And the distance it went, 11k, was not a distance I'd ever have dreamed I would cover when I lived ( Read more... )

--{This walk took place Friday, September 3}--

I've missed a few weekday walks since the 10,000 steps challenge ended at work.  So I was a little surprised to be a touch out of step.  ..that or I did get a little flu-ish on Wednesday after all.  Or maybe it was the weather jumping up to 84 degrees when it was projected to be 75.     In any case, ( Read more... )

--[This walk took place Friday,  August 27th.]--

I walked the Five Mile Drive at Point Defiance last year as part of the 10,000 steps challenge  from work, so this is not new territory for me.  However the Volksmarch took it in reverse, circling against traffic and going clockwise.  Sure, a big safety factor, but also i got  all the back roads ( Read more... )