Here we go, found the intros. I've been posting to online forums since the invention of electricity, but the topics are always in different places. In New England, we have no manners; introductions are a long lost art. It's a grunt for hello and walk away. Luckily I'm just old enough to have been pu...

We spent last January hiking around AZ and were sadly informed about the threat to close state parks. It seemed pretty crazy at the time, since we were paying tourist taxes upon taxes to visit these places. I felt especially bad for the volunteers. What a kick in the teeth to those kindly people. Se...