Category Archives: Brain Health Information

Information about the benefits of personal experiences such as embracing joy, seeking beauty or loving kindness for enhancing brain health.

The ADT Journey – Week 29

As soon as we entered Missouri the terrain felt more like back home.  The hills became a little more rolling, the riverbanks a little more chiseled and the trees thick enough to be called a forest.  No one would mistake … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 28

Back when we first entered Kansas, Gretchen Davis sent us an itinerary of speaking engagements and people hosting us for the days we would spend around Kansas City.  We met Gretchen and her husband Ardie in Frisco, Colorado because of … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 27

For the long distance hikes lasting that long, Thanksgiving always treated me spectacularly. In 1977 few people had yet to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, with our group of four being among the first one hundred.  The number finishing at … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 26

From our perspective Kansas can be divided in halves with McPherson serving as the point of delineation.  Flat plains, sparse natural vegetation and frequent cloudless skies characterized southwest Kansas; “rolling hills,” some natural vegetation and cloudy skies outnumbering cloudless skies … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 25

We entered Kansas from the southwest corner and would be departing through Kansas City, near the northeast corner.  Since much of Kansas originally was partitioned into square tracts of farmland, this meant a zigzag pattern of hiking east and north … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 24

The week started with a rest day in Cimarron to wait out a snowstorm.  We stayed at the Cimarron Hotel, the same place where the original team that mapped out the ADT stayed to also wait out a wintry storm.  … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 23

A passing motorist stopped to warn us about a coming storm, in defiance of the red sky that greeted our first evening in Kansas, allegedly an indicator of “sailor’s delight” and good weather.  Dusk found us chatting with a rancher … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 21

We took a rest day in Pueblo.  I had hoped to present at a college in the city and get publicity from the local news sources, but neither happened.  Instead, the tone for what would happen during our journey across … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 20

On our first day back from Denver I scouted trails for us to go up and over Pikes Peak, but I could not find a practical route that would land us near Cripple Creek. We would either be doubling back … Continue reading

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The ADT Journey – Week 19

After Denver we went back up into the Front Range and headed south until we reached Green Mountain Falls, where the ADT Coordinator for the Colorado section lived.  Dick Bratton provided a home base for us when we arrived, which … Continue reading

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