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Packed today for a week of Superior Trail dayhiking. A car means I completely violated my minimal packing standards.

Colors popped occasionally on my cycle ride.

Posted A Gate Agent’s Conundrum.

Tested a walk I’m developing on a friend: it explores Henry David Thoreau’s little-known 1861 visit to Minneapolis.

Part of today’s flight. Soon we’ll be down there hiking part of the Superior Trail from near the Canadian border

At NCL, Newcastle Airport. NCL-AMS-MSP

Hiked beside the River Tyne with friends. At Wylam, we refreshed ourselves in arguably the best pub in the world.

End of my Walk Around Newcastle, 4 miles short of goal. I may finish it when a tunnel under the river reopens.

Today, it was hard to stop walking. The sunset was so beautiful when I reached Tynemouth, I kept walking.

Enjoyed an Indian meal in Newbiggin-by-the-sea with my brother.

Walked, chatted with my best friend back to junior school. Sat, chatted with my brother and a dear family friend.

Posted Sometimes You Can Go Back.

Walked with friends around the extensive grounds of Gibside Hall, south of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Walked through postindustrial Britain. A wind turbine towers above the chimneys of an abandoned aluminum smelter.

Warkworth Castle, near the start of my walk to Newbiggin-by-the-sea. Today will be my longest beach walk, ever.

The final few yards of my trail. Just ahead, a hotel in Warkworth where I’ll be joined by my brother and a friend.