http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent Walking the water ways Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:48:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the things that Elaine and I did in preparation for this time away was to purchase a travel trailer and a truck to pull it. It’s one of the most extravagant things we’ve done, but it has given us a reasonable place to spend two months. ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/06/17/camping/ It has to rain some. I mentioned before that heavy rain had already caused Elaine to skip a scheduled day of walking and make it up with one of her days scheduled to be off. But we knew that it would happen eventually. The next ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/06/16/walking-in-the-rain/ Harper’s Ferry was a little disappointing in the sense that it was on the wrong side of the river for those doing the C&O. I didn’t even see it, and Elaine only saw it from the vantage point of the tow path. There is a foot bridge across ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/06/10/the-maryland-heights-wilderness/ One of the highlights of our adventure for me was a coffee house in Brunswick MD called Beans in the Belfry. It was documented as an internet hot spot. I have been handling my lack of connectivity with a variety of coping mechanisms, and this seemed like a ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/06/09/coffee-house/ It has rained a lot. A couple of days after the visit to GF it rained hard enough to affect Elaine’s walking schedule, and she skipped a day, and made some of it back up in part by walking on the next day scheduled to be off. It ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/04/30/great-falls-redux/ One of the things we’ve seen repeatedly is people with fishing equipment. Sometimes they are actually fishing. At any of the landings we’ve visited, there are always a fishermen putting their boats in the water. One day (it might have been at Edward’s Ferry) I watched someone ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/04/30/fishin/ After we had moved on past the section of trail containing GF, Elaine mentioned that she had wanted to get some post cards. ...Chester and Elaine enjoying lunch at GF. It was not until we got past the next section until I felt I had a chance to go ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/04/30/great-falls-revisited/ A critical feature of this time in our lives is our dog Chester. He is Elaine’s companion during all of her walks. I see to the logistics and travel trailer, and I am working on a number of projects in my “spare” time. As we were thinking ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/04/25/the-dog/ Great Falls is one of the better known spots on the Potomac. It is a series of very nice cascades that you can get to on the MD side by way of a trail from the C&O. A more noteworthy fact , in my opinion, is the ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/04/20/great-falls/ Without my regular camera, I was able to catch this photograph with the camera in my phone. It's a little ragged, but encouraging that JD was present, even during a day with logistical challenges....JD at Lock 6. Where is Jesus in the midst of hectic events? I made it ... http://blogs.messiah.edu/dent/2008/04/19/lock-6-epilogue-and-carderock-at-last/