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Get Outside, Hiking, Personal Life

11 Miles Through Ohiopyle

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As the name of this post indicated, this past weekend I was supposed to hiked 11 miles through the Ohiopyle State Park.

I guess technically you could say it was only 7 miles (4 miles were out of the park) but things went a tad bit astray…

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Ohiopyle Bakery & Sandwich Shoppe

The trail head that we started was the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail (really popular in the southwestern region of Pennsylvania).  Our starting point was the Ohiopyle Bakery and Sandwich Shoppe (yum!); ending point was (suppose to be) Maple Summit Road.  If you look closely enough you’ll be able to see the trail on this map from the PA DNCR.

All together there were 8 of us that started the trek and really only 2 finished the main plan.  I was in the group of six that ended up taking a detour(?).  But I’ll get to that later…

Personal Life

Shining of Color in Binghamton

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Wahoo! Who doesn’t love spending time with family, friends, and strangers all running (*cough, cough…walking?) while being covered in color?!?! #WeShine #Happiest5K

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Why Emerson?

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If you have found this site and have had some time to check it out you’re probably asking yourself two questions:

  1. You’re immediate question is probably, “Why Emerson?”    – and –
  2. What’s up with the main picture and silhouette pose? (see above for visual)

Both great questions.  To be completely honest with you I have no clue other than it just felt right.

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New Zealand, Spring 2013, Study Abroad

Northland & Coromandel

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My last trip in New Zealand! 😦 Extremely sad, but it was incredible! 😀

June 9th –

Kicked the trip off amazingly with a train ride with my pal and fellow TEAN’er, Evan from Wellington to Auckland!  We left at 7:55 am and arrived around 7 pm.  Yeah, it was a long ride but the view of the country side was worth it! Plus, now I can say I have taken a train through the North Island of New Zealand 😀

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New Zealand, Spring 2013, Study Abroad

Top of the South Island

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Caught the morning ferry from Wellington down to Picton on Saturday!  The ride was 3-3.5 hours and it was a much bigger ferry than I thought it would be! I woke up way earlier than normal so I spent the first half of the trip inside sleeping and then the second half (which of course was more exciting as we got closer to Picton) up on the top deck.

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