Log/Pic 70 Moto & Photo

So I took a couple motorcycle trips this month-one to New York for an environmental fair, and one to Maine to see my newly pregnant Godchild Jessica. Below is a photo of her, me, and her dad Gus, my old Navy buddy.

On the way home I spent the day at Walden Pond in Mass.

This place was made famous by Henry Davis Thoreau. Below is the site of the cabin he lived in for two years and two months.

Here is a replica of the cabin.

Some of his many famous words.

I displayed some of photos at the Somers art show/contest. Here is my mom 'Glo' who came to check out the display.

Here is my beautiful niece Sarah.

Ray Kaplan looking at the rest of my work.

I went on the 'Miracle Ride' to raise money for my old employer Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Smaller groups gathered at various businesses and then we all met in Newington-about 1300 of us!

Two by two we rode.

As we passed the Children's hospital in Hartford, patients, families, and staff greeted us.

Do I look happy in the reflection.

We ended in Granby and pigged out like hogs.

Log/Pic 69 Llamas & Cross Country Skiing

So this is from a resent trip the Exploration's kids and I took to a llama farm in Massachusetts.

We took them on a hike through the woods-or did they take us?

Below are photos from our last cross country ski trip of the year.

Log/Pic 68 Ice Climbing

So we took advantage of the cold and did some ice climbing...

...on some frozen waterfalls. 

Belaying

Climbing

Relaxing

Summiting

Repelling

Dog-tired at the end of the second day of climbing.

Log/Pic 67 Paintball & Skiing

So Lisa and I were in our local paper when a photographer for the paper caught us snowshoeing after a snowstorm at Powder Hollow.

This month we tested out our paintball guns.

We just couldn't wait until Spring.

We also made it downhill skiing a few times this winter.

Log/Pic 66 Winter Kayaking

So we went for what we thought was our final Kayak of the season.

Parts of the pond were frozen.

So we ram the ice and glided on top of it.

The pond looked great as the sun started to set.

We didn't want this trip to end so we stayed after dark.

We felt like icebreakers.

The moonlight through the ice.

We did go one more time after this night. We fought the strong current upstream but flipped a kayak trying to go under a fallen tree. After quickly paddling back to the jeep, the decision was made to hang them up for the season.