Inn to, er, Riverhouse, along the Allegheny River: Coudesport to Salamanca

Location	Pennsylvania and New York
Type	Inn to Inn
Distance	50 miles (but this is just the first leg...)
Mode	Paddling
Highlights	Incredible scenery, small towns, great B&B's (some places), Funky Hotels (other places).  History, Adventure...

Note:This is the first part of a grand project to map out an inn-to-inn route for the entire Allegheny and Ohio River.  Please feel free to contribute if you know stretches of the river(s).  

The idea was simple.  Start as high up on the Allegheny River as I could float my kayak and hope to find lodging in the towns along the way.  I was prepared to camp a night or two if it came to that,  but as usual I hoped to find a bed with sheets and a shower with hot water.

"It was while feeling sad to think that I was only walking on the edge of the vast wood, that I caught sight of the first palmetto in a grassy place, standing almost alone.  A few magnolias were near it, and bald cypresses, but it was not shaded by them.  they tell us that plants are perishable, soulless creatures, that only man is immortal, etc.; but this, I think is something that we know very nearly nothing about.  Anyhow, this palm was indescribably impressive and told me grander things than I ever got from human priest."

The Jewel of New England

Location	Block Island, Rhode Island
Type	Great Base Lodging
Mode	On Foot, Bike, or Rocking Chair
Highlights	Tranquility

The same great, mile-high glacier that parked ten to twenty miles off of southern New England and heaped up Nantucket and the Vineyard for Massachusetts, and the Forks of Long Island for New York, also left behind an appropriately diminutive summer playground for little Rhode Island.

The Boston Post Road.   During 2010 and 2011 Gary Denton walked the old Post Road from Boston to New York City.  He did the trip in stages rather than as a single epic journey, which gave him time to research the history and savor the details.  By the time we caught up with him, he was already in Providence, and we are thrilled to be able to republish his postings from  Click on the map below to find different segments or here for a full report from his trips.

If you want to see the report in it's full glory, however you should visit his personal blog.  We are working with Gary to bring the wealth of images and maps over to Weekendwalk, but it's s slow process due to different platforms.  

Eventually, Gary will be repackaging the best sections of the trip into itineraries for the trip library, so be sure to post any suggestions about where to stay, what to eat, what to see along the way. --weekendwalk

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Looking Around the Big Bend

Location	Texas: Big Bend
Type	Great Base Lodging
Duration	Not less than two nights
Difficulty	Moderate to strenuous, depending on trail choice and season
Distance	Got Milk?
Highlights	Hikes, Fossils, Petroglyphs, Sun

We arrived at the Chisos Mountain Lodge with not much of an itinerary except to walk together in the heat and sun, to explore as much of the vast park as we could and be back on our way home in a week.  The last time I lived with my dad for more than three or four days was decades ago; the last time I spent more than a few hours entirely alone with him was never.  I didn’t know what we would talk about for all that time, but I knew it would include a thousand unanswerable questions posed by him about the nature of truth, the identity of God, the possibility of a vast right wing conspiracy, and the meaning of life.  If you know my dad, you understand.