We have settled into Schenectady to visit family and recover from our last nine day walk across MA and VT.  Our friends Jane and Bob completed the Appalachian Trail on the last leg of this walk.  Wonderful! We hope to finish the Northeast part of the AT over the next week and a half with weather at least half as good as during this last walk.  Sunny and cool every day with chilly nights.  Superb hiking weather.  

Grandma and Grandpa Woods joined us for a whale watching trip in Provincetown, MA

We are departing as the Nor’easter arrives.  First foul weather since we have been at Cape Cod.  We left the Appalachian Trail last week after completing a final section of trail in Maine.  Having finished the entire trail in the states of Maine and New Hampshire, we can say that the hardest is over.  This year’s walks led us to treats of chanterelles and blueberries.  Wonderful.  As always the rugged northern mountains gave great views of themselves.  Fabulous.