Continuing our Where's Waldo, we mean, Live Like a Local series, Travis wrote a post about his travels and living like a local in Baltimore. The annual New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Conference was held around the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, MD this past weekend. I...
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Epic adventures sometimes have humble beginnings. I had a great conversation with an old ski instructor buddy of mine lately. He too is also an avid hiker. I had sent him a text saying I was dying to go hiking on the forthcoming weekend. He...
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Delivery Notice: One Perfectly Healthy Boston Hiking Guide. Name: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Boston Weight: 312 pages Length: 9 inches Author and book are doing well! My copies of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Boston arrived the other day. That was certainly cause for celebration, especially when I cracked...
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New Jersey gets such a bad rap. New Yorkers love to point out that it's not New York, the entire country makes fun of the inability to pump your own gas, and it's the butt of every state joke. But true Jerseyans know that the...
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Well this is it boys and girls—my final update post for 60 Hikes within 60 Miles of Boston. These were the final five hikes. And after all the research and writing and editing this project entailed, I was quite thrilled to be in the home...
Read MoreWhile the hike profiles I write and revise for the book 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Boston are all formal and factual, I think of these previews more as my emotional response. This is what I would say to you while sitting at a pub...
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In case you’re wondering, these hike previews I’ve been feeding you are presented in the order in which I did the actual research hikes. The order in which they will appear in 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Boston is much different. They’re separated into categories...
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While at this point, I have completed my writing and editing for the second edition of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles of Boston (that loud raucous noise you may have heard the first weekend of November was me celebrating!), I will continue to feed you...
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Lafe here checking in as I am finishing the research hikes and the revising of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Boston, but I will continue to feed you appetizers. Enjoy! #36 Ogilvie Town Forest Tucked away in and around neighborhoods of Weston, Ogilvie Town Forest is a...
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Something peculiar happens when you’re playing—I mean, hurriedly hiking—and finishing a guidebook before the first snow falls in Massachusetts. You write the notes, take the photos, and post them online, but forget to pair your memories with your photos in the form of a blog...
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