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Category: Tales from the Trail

Thoughts about a commute along the I-205 path and Springwater Corridor

When your life and transportation choices make you the happiest person ever

  Indulge me in a story for a sec. For one of my jobs, I lead a youth conservation crew (think trailbuilding, planting, restoration work, and the like), and today was one of our “conservation education” days. That can mean a whole host of different things, but today it took …

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stasia February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017Random Thoughts, Tales from the Trail 2

Tales from the Trail: Animal Encounters

One of my favorite parts about my work commute? The wildness along the Springwater Trail, especially early in the morning when I come through. Granted, a lot of the trail these days is bordered by human encampment, which means that the more shy of the nonhuman critters are sometimes harder …

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stasia August 28, 2016 August 28, 2016Tales from the Trail 4

Tales from the trail: Incidental commute buddies
(or, why a bike commute rocks)

I have a backwards commute. Maybe you do too. I mean that I bike the opposite direction from most people — and though I’m biking early enough that I mostly don’t see them, I know that if I left two hours later I would see hordes of cyclists whooshing past …

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stasia May 26, 2016 May 26, 2016Commuting, Tales from the Trail 3

Tales from the trail: amphibians!

January 20th was the first day I heard frogs this season. I know, because it was exciting enough that I wrote it in my journal: one of the first harbingers of spring. It was a magical day anyway, a then-rare day without rain, though everything was still wet. As I …

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stasia March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016Tales from the Trail 2
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