July marks our next world travel trip, this time to Peru. We plan to hike the Inca Trail and visit Machu Picchu, which will be four days of hiking at altitude. So this spring is get-in-shape time. This week we've had two great hikes on the Appalachian Trail.

On Thursday (April 27) we drove to Salisbury and hiked up Bear Mountain, the highest point in Connecticut. It was overcast all day and the summit was in the clouds so the view was not worth a photo but the hike was lovely. (With the exception of the section just past the summit where we scrambled down some very steep rocks. Next time we'll climb up that section, under the theory that it's easier to climb up tough sections than it is to climb down.)

 Today (April 30) we drove to Kent for a different section of the Appalachian Trail. This one was a flat trail along the Housatonic River. Very easy walking (we averaged 20 minute miles) but it was the longest hike (8.5 miles) we've done all spring. It was another overcast day and another lovely hike.

This section reminded us of the Bamboo Forest in Kyoto.

It's hard to tell but that's a bald eagles' nest up in the top of that tree. One of the eagles landed in a tree nearby as we ate lunch along the trail.

This post is a place-holder for a trip we took to Kenya in December 2016. Some day I plan to upload posts and pictures. Some day...