Neusiok Trail Exploratory Hike
For several years I have been missing outdoor trips and sports exercise from multiple surgeries with the associated disability and pain. All along I have anticipated when I can return to solid exercise. For several months now I have been working my way up to backpacking. Many times, I walked…
Black River Winter Paddle
On January 12, Angela Marshal, owner and operator of Kayak Carolin Wilmington, organized a kayak paddle trip with invitations through the MeetUp website. We met at Newby’s Landing near Kelly, NC, on the Black River in Bladen County, NC - not to be confused with several other Black Rivers in…
Neusiok Trail Hang Fire
For many years, backpacking was my main outdoor sport, along with tennis, snow skiing, scuba diving and others. Due to my pain before, during and after arthritis, right hip joint replacement surgery, left hip joint replacement surgery, and pinched nerve spinal surgery, I have not backpacked for about five years.…
A Bucolic Walk Through Time
There is an old, large, arboreal cemetery near where Janet and I live next to the Historic District in Wilmington, NC. It is appropriately named Oak Dale. The grounds are full of big, old live oak trees, some with Spanish moss and ivy draped on their limbs. It is a…