by Dawn Chandler | Oct 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
As I look out my window just now, I see nothing but a dark tangle of black lines, crisscrossing and knotting up with each other, their shapes carved out by the softest shade of morning, of first light. First this light was pale grey. Now at the base where earth turns...
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...
by Dawn Chandler | Oct 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
On September 9 of this year I set out to walk across Vermont. My passageway was The Long Trail, the oldest established long-distance hiking trail in the United States. Begun in 1910—two decades before the Appalachian Trail—it courses for 273 miles along the spine of...
