Category: adventure
Peabody-Fitch Woods & Narramissic Historical Farm
I recently checked out another Loon Echo Land Trust property, located at the beautiful Peabody-Fitch Woods & Narramissic Historical Farm. Over the past year, there has been a lot of work put into making an accessible trail, parking lot, and overall grooming of the farm. The farm is owned by the Bridgton Historical Society and… Read more
Collaborating with Loon Echo Land Trust
Loon Echo Land Trust reached out to me recently after reading my blog post. I had visited the trust’s Pondicherry Park property, located in the middle of the town of Bridgton, Maine. The employees of LELT wanted me to help them improve the main trail that runs through the park to make it a more inclusive trail… Read more
First Adaptive Ascent Black Jack Crack
The Back Story A couple weeks ago I ventured out to ‘The Gunks” with Paradox Sports. That trip went pretty horribly. I ended up getting sick before I even got to climb and drove the 7 hours all the way home. I did get to see friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and… Read more
Pay It Forward Tour Highlights – Stanislaus National Forest
When I left Tonopah, I had a 6 hour drive to my aunt’s house in Sonora California. It was beautiful weather and I was going to be passing through Stanislaus National Forest. This was going to be an awesome ride. Which I really needed after my journey across Nevada. Hawthorne Nevada Before I embarked… Read more
Pay It Forward Tour Highlights – Gas? I don’t need no stinking gas
When I left off last time I mentioned I would be headed back to my aunt’s house in Sonora California. I learned another hard lesson from this leg of the #payitforwardtour. Know where you are going and stop for gas. My First Mistakes On my way out of Cedar City Utah I consulted Google… Read more
Quote By JFK I Could Have Written
A Mission to Help Others While editing my website today, I was searching for a certain John F. Kennedy quote. The quote is “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” I wanted to make sure I had the correct quote. I had rewritten it in… Read more
Scarborough Marsh – Scarborough Maine
Scarborough Marsh It has been awhile since I posted last. After a bit of a rough winter with hospital stays and sickness, Sandy and I finally ventured out to Scarborough Marsh this weekend. We started the day at the Bug Light Kite Festival not realizing we were actually at the start of The Eastern Trail.… Read more
Skydiving : Another Way to Scare My Mom
The Big Idea In 2003 I attended a skydiving demonstration in my hometown, Patten Maine. As I was watching the skydivers I started thinking that I could fall out of a plane just as easy as anyone. After some pondering, the skydiving plane landed and I approached the skydivers to dig a little deeper into… Read more
Perspectives From Adaptive Kayaking
I know it has been a while since I have written but I got a new job and have been struggling a bit to figure out my new routine. Now that I have that sorted out I am going to try to write at least once a week. Lonnie Bedwell Lonnie Bedwell in a… Read more
The Freedom of Flight with Project Airtime
Discovery of Project Airtime A couple years ago, right before I climbed El Capitan, I had the opportunity to do an internship in California. I was finishing up my Computer Information Systems degree at the time and needed the internship to satisfy that requirement. As part of the internship, I agreed to drive cross country… Read more