Dog Friendly Trails
Dog friendly hiking trails for you to explore!
The Phantom Dog Walker
Yesterday we awoke to find our neighborhood blanketed in a thick fog. No surprise really. After all it is spooky season, and this is par for the course. Besides we’ve walked in far worse conditions than fog. So in the predawn, just as the sun was starting to rise, we set off into the fog […]
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The Polite Greeting of Monsters, Superheroes, and Princesses
Dogs, you may have noticed a few odd looking characters lurking around your neighborhood these past few days. Don’t panic! In the coming nights these strange looking ghouls, goblins, witches, princesses and superheroes will be knocking on YOUR door. But it’s ok! It’s Halloween! I know this goes against your instincts to guard your home […]
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Lobsters’ Superpowers: Stranger than Science Fiction
Move over werewolves, vampires, zombies, demonic cats, and creepy clowns, it’s time that Maine’s monster of the ocean deep gets featured in its own horror movie! I’m talking about none other than the lobster! Now before you go licking your chops dreaming of this Maine delicacy, you may have second thoughts after reading these shell […]
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Preserving Grandpa’s Faded Memories
Eight years ago today, our Grandpa lost his battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. For the past year, Mom has been organizing the contents of Grandpa’s childhood home. A home that has been in the family for multiple generations. There she found tucked in the attic eaves Grandpa’s treasured toys, in bedroom drawers cards with wobbly childhood […]
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Nevermore! A Dog’s Halloween Plight
Gather round my friends, as I share this haunting poem about my Halloween plight that is truly a fright. Asa just ordered our Halloween costumes! Now whereas he enjoys dressing up and looking silly, I do not. Over the years I’ve had to endure being dressed up as a caterpillar, pumpkin, and even a pink […]
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Reclaimed by Nature
It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally on hikes we come across cars abandoned in the woods. Now we’re talking really old cars, that barely resemble their former self and have slowly become one with nature. Which of course makes us wonder, how they got there on these narrow, forested trails? Such was the case on […]
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Machias River Preserve, Whitneyville, Maine
Spoiler Alert: We did NOT find money at the Money Island Trail as part of the Machias River Preserve in Machias and Whitneyville, Maine. What we did find though was far more valuable! A peaceful walk in the woods, along the Machias River, that led us to a section of the Down East Sunrise Trail, […]
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Long Point Preserve, Machiasport, Maine
For thousands of years, humans have visited the peninsula that juts out into Machias Bay, beginning with the Passamaquoddy, which comes from the word peskotomuhkat, which means “one who spears pollock.” From Native Americans, to early European explorers and settlers, to fishermen and farmers, this land and the water that surrounds it have supported the […]
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I Know It Is Out There
Well I *may* not have discovered Bigfoot on my hike, but while Asa was making beach buddies with the deer and the sandpipers on vacation, I was making important discoveries! I tracked a species that up until now was not known to inhabit the Maine woods! A creature far rarer than Bigfoot! When I first […]
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Invisible Bigfoot: A Song for Believers
Fun Fact: Chances are within 100 miles of where you are now, there has been a Bigfoot sighting. Or at least that’s what a show we watched during vacation claimed. So it wasn’t a surprise while hiking in the remote woods in Danforth, Maine, that Chuck Billy’s thoughts turned towards this shy and elusive creature. […]
