Hmmm.... 4 days in the wilderness with Peter and family.... sounds like fun. Unfortunately now that I'm married there's not enough vacation time to spend with the Jordan and McCunn sides of my family let alone hang out with Peter. Sorry, I'm going to have to pass. Also I'm not in good enough shape to go 40 miles. Hiking up East Rock is about all I can manage these days (the rock alluded to in my last post, see the image above). It's about a 20 minute walk one way from our house to the top, but it gives a nice view of downtown New Haven and parts of Yale, so it's a nice "hike" when there's not enough time to do any real hike.

By the way, East Rock gets it's name from the fact that it is east of West Rock. The settlers of the New Haven area weren't very original with naming towns and places, which is why if you go north from New Haven you reach North Haven, if you go east you go to East Haven, and if you go west you end up in West Haven. Just below East Rock is the East Rock neighborhood (what else would it be called?) aka the "Grad Student Ghetto" because grad students (and the Jordans) live there in comfortable apartments. Just one more bad name choice in New Haven.