Through Zephyrs and Rain and Damian, We Continue the Wine Trail NorthWinds Vineyard, Watertown July 10, 2010 This winery closed in 2013. This page used to begin with several paragraphs of me lamenting the shortcomings of the CT Wine Trail. Namely, the terrible website, the woefully out of date brochures, the … [Read more...]
Leatherman’s Cave at Crane’s Lookout
Hello Misdirected Googlers! Leatherman's Cave at Crane's Lookout, Watertown May 2009 Notes: Please see comments for more info. Also, in December 2014 I took my sons to the "other" Watertown cave location nearby. Every so often, perhaps once in every 40 or 50 posts I do, I come to write one for which I'm … [Read more...]
Jericho Trail
The Walls and Caves of Jericho Watertown, 3.4 miles (one way) May 18, 2009 I don't know how or why this trail got the name "Jericho," but I'm sure it goes back a ways in our history... The area probably named by the Puritan Colonials. For as you know, the city of Jericho is described in the Hebrew Bible as the … [Read more...]
Whitestone-Jericho Connector
CONNECT(icut) Plymouth/Thomaston/Watertown, 1.6 miles March 31, 2009 There's no need for this post. Really. It's a nice connector trail to have available, as one can hook up from the Jericho to the Mattatuck and continue west or east. It's just not necessary for me to bother writing it up. Just look at this … [Read more...]
Waterbury Area Trails Intro
Waterbury Area Trails Waterbury, Watertown, Plymouth, Thomaston Waterbury and Hiking go together like... Toothpaste and Grapefruit Juice? Blindness and Driving? UConn and football? What I’m saying is, no one thinks about hiking when they think of Waterbury. Here's the thing: Waterbury is thought of as … [Read more...]