25 July 1974

 This was a Thursday in 1974,  And after a 10.5 mile hike, hit Snowden Virginia for a mail drop and to shop for some groceries.  "Groceries in Snowden sucked."

Well it was a small combo grocery, hardware and PO all in one (might have had gas too).

  The choices were limited, but I seem to recall I bought a block of cheese.  I also noted in my journal that the "James River gorge no sweat."

At the Johns Hollow LT I met Harry who hiked the whole AT in 1969.

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#15/37.6127/-79.3941

Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, a Green Festival? The Dissonance Between Stakeholders

 Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, a Green Festival? The Dissonance Between Stakeholders

(Harpa, https://harpa.is/en/about-harpa)

a chapter in Sharma, A., Kumar, J., Mohanty, P., Turaev, B. (eds.) Festival and Event Tourism: Building Resilience and Promoting Sustainability, CABI.

Full Citation:

Jenkins, I. & Bristow, R.S. (2022). Airwaves Music Festival, Iceland, a Green Festival?  The dissonance between audience and product. In Sharma, A., Kumar, J., Mohanty, P., Turaev, B. (eds.) Festival and Event Tourism: Building Resilience and Promoting Sustainability, (pp. 49-63) CABI.

Summer (hectic) travel

 Read an AP story this morning in the paper (yes a hardcopy paper) titled "European travel runs into pandemic cutbacks."  Heavy traffic and Covid 19 precautions.

I haven't flown since September 2021 but reading this has made me even more reluctant.

Essentially all of my flight travel depends on connecting flights.  I also know that weather, both summer and winter can create a tremendous strain on flights.

My strategy, especially in the winter is to fly early in the morning.  Basically you insure the plane is at the airport from the previous night and all that is needed is the deicing.  Still may have delays at a connecting airport, but that is where the airport lounge comes in handy.

Summer time opens us other weather related delays.  I recall hopping a ride from College Station TX to Waco in a thunderstorm to hopefully connect a flight to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Did I tell you about missing my flight in San Juan since I was getting a chair message?

So long story short.  If you connect, give yourself plenty of time so you don't need to do a OJ Simpson run through the airport (can't do that anyway due to TSA).

Summer Solstice

 Summer Solstice this year is today, 21 June 2022.

while we didn't visit Stonehenge until August and closer to the Equinox, I suspect it was crazy busy there today.

In the meantime, here are some shots of the rocks.

take care....

Screen Saver

 One of the nice things about my PC operating system, in my case Windows 10, is the screen saver.   I have it cycle through folders in my pictures and get to "recollect" some of my travels.  Here are some different shots.

and some more.

So why not use your own photos for the scrolling backgrounds?

Air Passenger Travel Between the U.S. and Europe up 783%

 Data recently released by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) show that in May 2022:

U.S.-International air traffic passenger enplanements (APIS/ “I-92” arrivals + departures) totaled 16.764 million in May 2022, up 129% compared to May 2021, however, enplanements reached 76% of pre-pandemic May 2019 volume.

Whew.

Oh yeah, after my AT hike I started a job at Camp Straus as a canoe guide.

Finished hike of Appalachian Trail (12 June 1975)

 On the 12th of June in 1975, I finished hiking the Appalachian Trail..  Basically both ends to the middle, hiked 1,600 miles in 1974 (June to October) then finished up the middle sections on a few trips in the spring of 1975.

The final piece started at Tyringham, MA and concluded (in the rain of course) at US Route 20 near Lee, MA.

No one would pick up a wet hitchhiker, so I walked into Lee to buy a bus ticket home.

Funny thing is that in 1989, I moved to New England and our first house was on US Route 20 in Westfield, some 30 miles east.