Outdoors Girl: Rested and rejuvenated - Maryland parks and outdoors: Life in Maryland’s great outdoors by Candy Thomson

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July 10, 2010

Rested and rejuvenated

True friends take in a dirty, stinky, sticky Quester for the night without bringing up the obvious.

And put on a pasta feast, with a glass or three of red wine.

And turn the air conditioning on full blast in the spare room with a nice, soft bed.

True friends are Debbie Funk and Jack Hughes.

Less than 24 hours after falling behind schedule and being befuddled by the clues at Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary -- and having to remind myself that there's no crying in Park Quest -- I am recharged.

The soft rain is a nice change of pace.

Bring it on, Gunpowder Falls State Park.

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Posted by Candus Thomson at 10:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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My first memories of fishing with my dad were at Gunpowder Falls State Park. I haven't thought about that in a long time - thanks for sharing your stories!

Posted by: Elizabeth Burton Steere | July 11, 2010 12:58 PM

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About Candus Thomson

In a world of paper vs. plastic and candy mint vs. breath mint, my early memories involved a debate about the merits of freshwater vs. saltwater.

On the one hand, a great uncle’s fishing cabin on the Susquehanna River beckoned, but so did family gatherings on the Jersey Shore.

The correct answer, thankfully, was, “both.”

As The Sun’s outdoors writer for more than a decade, I’ve fished across Maryland in one day, hiked the width of the state in one hour, camped overnight in the median of I-95 to experience the wildlife between the fast lanes and chased mountain bikers in a 24-hour marathon race.

Those are some of the highlights. I’ve also fallen in a raging Gunpowder River during a trout survey (photo available upon request), had a shark spill its guts on my clothes and been stuck in a sub-freezing Vermont wilderness with men armed with flintlocks and hatchets, shuffling along on ancient wooden snowshoes.

And, in my travels I’ve met lots of you, who share a love of the outdoors and the good times and mishaps that go along with it.

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