by Dawn Chandler | Sep 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
At this point in my Vermont sojourn, my Long Trail journal starts to ricochet. My next entry is five days after I limped off the trail in Manchester, uncertain of my future; I then time-travel and describe the past. My diary continues this way for the duration. Alas,...
by Dawn Chandler | Aug 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
pathways…. and waterways… and walkways …. we interrupt this summer to share meals… meditation… direction…. and glimpses of yesteryear…. … to share the welcoming of...
by Dawn Chandler | Nov 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s been two months now since I came off Vermont’s Long Trail. I can finally descend the stairs in my own home without holding my breath and having to ease my legs down step by step. The golf-ball sized swelling over my left clavicle has abated. I can almost...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Where does a walk across Vermont end? I can’t tell you. But what I can tell you is where it does not end. It does not end on the first day in the first hour or two or three or four with gnats spinning dully in your eyes and ears during the greatest September heatwave...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
A northbound walk across Vermont begins with the first footstep upon the trail in Massachusetts. Well… No… really….that’s not quite right. Really, it begins a few moments earlier with you and your first friend in life—your friend of 49 years—embracing, choking...
