Day at Sea with Holland America's Rotterdam.
Also Today: a total solar eclipse will take place at the Moon's ascending node on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America and dubbed the Great North American Eclipse (also Great American Total Solar Eclipse and Great American Eclipse) by some of the media.
Drove to Adams for a visit with the folks. No auction today, just a nice visit.
On the way back to Connecticut, I stopped off in Cummington to piece together the route from Route 9 to Dodswell Road, which I failed at in early March.
This time, I found my way, saw where I went wrong prior, and made the route correctly.
As a bonus, I jogged past a perched rock in the woods.
4.3-miles.
Got a decently early start at Granville, hoping to use some of the forest roads I'd noticed on an old topographical map. I designed a "sort of" loop that would be about 10-miles.
The running went extremely well, with an average speed of over 5 mph right up to about mile 9. Then, I ran into some serious logging activity that pretty much ruined the old forest road I had been on in May of 2010. I tried some optional paths, which were ORV made, and those were not great as they tended to loop into loops and were nothing much other than mud bogs. The route may have been called Mud Bog Trail, actually.
I made it back to the car in 12.9-miles, and 4.9 average for mph. Pretty close to 12-minute miles for the duration, which kept me happy.
Most of the route was on old forest and perhaps watershed property, with a couple miles past Howell Pond as paved. The paved section was nice, with only a house or two through the entire section, so pretty remote. The logging section was the only disappointment.
Drove out to Tolland, Massachusetts, right at the Granville border on Route 57. I had been noticing a forest road (gated) that appeared to be part of the Hull Forest network. As happens often, I was curious whether this connected to anything within the "circled world".
There were many warnings of shooting and firearms, and after completing this adventure I now know why. Starting from about a mile in, there are numerous hunting blinds / tree stands. Many of these.
The road was really good running, and a sidepath lead me down to Hall Pond, which looked fantastic.
I explored many side-trails, but these either looped back to the main forest road or ended at another tree stand, so not much use going foreward.
Ended with 6.9-miles.
Having been born in 1962, and liking and listening to music from the early sixties onward, I thought it might be fun to attempt a listing of my favorite albums each year since birth.
The initial post for this series of ideas began on December 26th, 2023. You can look it up....
I present my favorite Jazz albums of 1965...
Jazz Albums released 1965:
1. John Coltrane A Love Supreme
2. Rashaan Roland Kirk Rip Rig and Panic
3. Larry Young Unity
4. Miles Davis E.S.P.
5. Joe Henderson In 'n Out
6. Pharoah Saunders Pharoahs First
7. Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity
8. Dexter Gordon One Flight Up
9. Jackie McLean Consequences
10. Sam Rivers Fuchsia Swing Song
Jazz Honorable Mentions, 1965:
11. Grant Green and Larry Young I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. Jackie McLean Right Now
13. Wayne Shorter Soothsayer
14. Archie Shepp Fire Music
15. Sam Rivers Contours
16. Don Cherry Complete Communion
17. Lee Morgan Cornbread
18. Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One & Two
19. Wayne Shorter The All Seeing Eye
20. Jackie McLean Jackknife
Drove to Adams early to visit the folks.
Did a bit of exploring on the way, checking some snowmobile crossings in Cummington, tying to tie some things together for the future. Seems like I noticed some things that might work.
After a lengthy visit with my parents, we loaded 50 Bales of Hay onto Pop's Chevy and we drove in tandem to the auction in Whately for unloading. Another fine visit.
