by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Feb 18, 2019 | Travel
Our journey from the Orkney Islands to Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands started well before sunrise and included a surprise visit to a rather odd museum before landing on the edge of Kinlochleven. Scottish Highlands Our itinerary for our... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Aug 15, 2015 | Hiking, Travel
After ravishing Banff National Park and Lake Louise we continued to Jasper in Alberta, Canada, where we established our base camp for part II of our trip. During our Jasper adventure we heard the boom of glaciers; experienced vertigo when we looked into bottomless... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Aug 3, 2015 | Hiking, Travel
The Banff travel guides promised abundant wildlife. The roadside signs warned to not approach the caribou, bear or sheep. We saw one sheep, one goat, and a handful of elk during our visit to the Canadian Rockies. Oh, and we found bear poop on a trail and it nearly... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Apr 26, 2015 | Hiking, Michigan, Running
Ann Arbor, Michigan is crisscrossed with miles of fantastic urban trail. One of our favorite’s is the Black Pond Woods Nature Area trail, that connects to the Leslie Park Trail, crosses Pontiac Trail, skirts Cloverdale Park/neighborhood, tunnels under M-14,... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Nov 28, 2014 | Hiking, Travel
So Chuck! What are we doing today? Chuck’s response while we were in Susanville, California running our first 50K Ultramaraton, “Hiking in the Lassen Volcanic National Park.” Most people rest before running a 50K, not us, we hiked 20 miles. Our... 
