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Final tour stop?
I do believe that my 2016 Tour de Parks has FINALLY come to an end. No, I haven't been visiting any more parks. But I have been...
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And the tour continues...
It seems as thought I dropped off the face of the earth after my last blog post, which officially concluded my 2016 Tour de Parks. I...
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Two more Victor parks
I got a little surprise a few weeks ago. As I was working on my presentation for the Adirondack Mountain Society, and visiting the Victor...
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The official List of Parks
I've gotten a lot of responses from my Our Towns East Extra article today in which I wrote about how I had successfully explored all 100...
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And that's a wrap.
Last Sunday I notched the last three parks in my 100-parks challenge. Two of them were in far-south Mendon, and I was lamenting the fact...
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Riding the trail
Erie Canal Heritage Trail This post is very long overdue, and many weeks in the making. From the very beginning, one of the "parks" on my...
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My last two Victor parks
Ganondagan State Historic Site OK, it's pretty clear from the headline here that Ganondagan is not a park. But it is an incredible...
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The first Monroe County Park
Ellison Park, Penfield When I told my husband this morning that I had not yet explored Ellison Park, he was surprised. After all, Ellison...
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Closing in on 100 on a beautiful autumn day
Time is getting short. I looked up this morning and discovered that lo and behold, it was almost the middle of November already. With 10...
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A cloudy Mendon day
November being right around the corner, it dawned on me recently that there aren't that many days left in 2016, and time is getting very...