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Beelzebub Road, South Windsor

February 24, 2009 by Steve 20 Comments

This is good stuff. A perfectly normal street in a perfectly normal suburb very near a perfectly normal large mall/chain restaurant complex with a rather odd name. This odd name, of course, brings in the crazies with their video cameras and fanciful acting but more on that below. Determining how Beelzebub Road … [Read more...]

78. Phelps-Hatheway House Museum

February 19, 2009 by Steve 7 Comments

I Saw Anne Hatheway's Underwear Drawer! Suffield (Google Maps location) October 13, 2008 This is embarrassing. On many levels. First, some background: Way back at CTMQ museum number 4, the Butler-McCook House Museum, I was admonished for attempting to take pictures inside the house. The house is owned by … [Read more...]

Risley Pond/Box Mountain Loop Trail

February 19, 2009 by Steve 4 Comments

Risleying Above Risley Pond/Box Mountain Trails, Vernon/Bolton February 2009 As this is a very old page, you can expect a different hike today, whenever today is. Matt at Explore Connecticut enjoyed his time here more than I did. Since my original hike, I've reached these trails from the east, which is an … [Read more...]

77. Beckley Furnace

February 17, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

It's Like a Furnace in Here! North Canaan (Google maps location) October 5, 2008 An absolutely brilliant and beautiful Fall day in Connecticut. Grandmom and Granddad up from Delaware watching Damian back in West Hartford. Hoang and I take a leisurely drive west on Route 44 through some of the prettiest October … [Read more...]

Shenipsit Trail Intro

February 16, 2009 by Steve 5 Comments

The Shenipsit Trail East Hampton to Stafford 50 miles The Shenipsit Trail is located in Central Connecticut and mostly follows the low ridgeline east of the Connecticut River. It runs for about 50 miles in a north-south direction. There are about 25 miles of regional Shenipsit Trails as well. The southern … [Read more...]

Haight-Brown Vineyard (Closed)

February 7, 2009 by Steve 4 Comments

Haight-Asbury had LSD, Haight-Brown has Wine Haight-Brown Vineyards, Litchfield November 2, 2008 The winery, Connecticut's first, closed in August 2023. Our fourth wine tour stop in one day - not a particularly impressive feat, if not for the fact that we had our little Damian with us. This would be our last … [Read more...]

Mattabesett Afterword

February 6, 2009 by Steve 3 Comments

9 Section Hikes Began: 5/23/2008 Finished: 11/9/2008 While I have a very long way to go to complete the Blue Trails Challenge/CT400, finishing up with my first of the longer CFPA trails leaves me with both a sense of satisfaction and an odd feeling of sadness. Not sadness like sadness when your dog dies, but … [Read more...]

Mattabesett Trail: Section 9

February 6, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Section 9: I'll Be Mattabe-Seein' Ya Bear Hill Road - River Road (Eastern Terminus), 4.9 Miles November 9, 2008 Since this was hiked and written, the Kleen Energy plant has been built near the terminus and the trail has been rerouted/shorted a bit. It no longer has the road walk at the end. This is it. My … [Read more...]

Wallace Stevens Walking Tour Intro

February 6, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Poetry is not my thing. In fact, I've been known to unfairly smear the whole genre with the broad insulting stroke of, "I hate poetry." This, of course, isn't really true at all. I'm more ignorant of poetry then disdainful of it. So I'm open to learning something about it, by way of a cool new little walk in … [Read more...]

URR Trail: Oxford

February 5, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Washband (Washburn) Tavern 90 Oxford Road Finding this place marked my first time I was ever in Oxford. I didn't stay too long, but the drive through the woods over from Lake Zoar was lovely. Even though the Freedom Trail put together a new, far better website, there's still not too much about this … [Read more...]