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Dennis Forney has been a journalist on the Delmarva Peninsula since 1972 and has been writing his Barefootin’ column for The Whale and then the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years. Contact Dennis at dnf@capegazette.com.
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SEA TO SHINING SEA: Never touch your eyes
By Dennis Forney - May 23DAY 9 - Steady rain today. We're closing in on the Cascades. Bill and Val's place is in the clouds and the Douglas Firs at about 1,800 feet. ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: A sweet day crossing Willamette Valley
By Dennis Forney - May 20DAY 7 - We made 61 miles today. Averaged 11 miles per hour. Amazing what flat roads and a tail wind will do. Ended up just west of Eugene, Oregon ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Pinot Noir and PB&J
By Dennis Forney - May 18DAY FIVE - Saturday night. Sitting in an empty floral booth in the Polk County Fairgrounds. Tent pitched on the grass out front. Bikes behind me, ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: A day of rain, a day of curds
By Dennis Forney - May 16DAY THREE - Rode about 25 miles today on top of yesterday's 34. A short day. Not feeling real chipper. Head cold, fuzzy head. Set up camp early. ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Starting out from Astoria
By Dennis Forney - May 15This is where we started our journey - where Lewis and Clark ended their epic exploration during the Jefferson presidency. Jefferson valued ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Going away party
By Dennis Forney - Apr 24I crossed the peninsula last Saturday morning to my old spawning grounds. Visited with my mother Mary Margaret and her caretaker Chantel. Too ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: The route
By Dennis Forney - Apr 17It's not often you buy one-way tickets on airplane trips. Becky and I did that recently. Two tickets from Baltimore to Portland, Oregon. Our ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Shipping out
By Dennis Forney - Apr 15Fed Ex will be picking up the bicycles on Tuesday this week and shipping them out to Bikes and Beyond in Astoria, Oregon. I used an outfit called ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Avoiding a sore butt
By Dennis Forney - Apr 12Friends ask me if I'm concerned about getting a sore butt from riding a bicycle across the United States. They envision some kind of really ...
A cold Saturday afternoon on the point of the cape
By Dennis Forney - Feb 03GROUND HOG DAY - The folks in Punxatawney say Phil didn't see his shadow Saturday. Early spring. The thin branches of leafless trees are already ...
Sea to shining sea and other groovy stuff
By Dennis Forney - Dec 06It's been a while since I posted so I've accumulated a few more photos to share. Some are from a recent Thanksgiving trip to Seattle when Becky ...
Voter turnout in Sussex expected to set records
By Dennis Forney - Nov 06Since 1991, the number of registered voters in Sussex County has more than doubled. Then, said Sussex County Board of Elections Director Ken ...
A few more photos from the day after Sandy
By Dennis Forney - Oct 30Hurricane Sandy's flood waters brought plenty of damage to Delaware's coast but nothing like would have been the case had the much higher winds ...
SANDY: A drive around Lewes on Monday morning
By Dennis Forney - Oct 29A drive around Lewes Monday morning showed plenty of high water but we've received a stroke of good luck, at least at this point in time. The wind ...
Improvements still emerging at Indian River Inlet
By Dennis Forney - Oct 011 Rocktober 2012 Becky and I rode bikes to Indian River Inlet on Saturday. Sunny, nice. Down the Junction and Breakwater Trail from Lewes, juiced ...
SUSSEX ALMANAC: changing light and natural beauty
By Dennis Forney - Sep 07EARLY SEPTEMBER • 7 SEPTEMBER 2012 The sun's coming up later now on morning walks. That changes the light that I see on everything from rainbows ...
Chester River Catfish Invitational draws hundreds
By Dennis Forney - Sep 03Hundreds of anglers aboard at least 60 boats crowded for space on the upriver side of the Chester River Bridge on Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore ...
Lou Ianire's, pink marshmallows, the peak of summer
By Dennis Forney - Aug 01Peak of the Summer Marshmallows are blooming, crepe myrtles are blooming - the peak of the summer. I took the picture of the pink marshmallows a ...
Flying saucer along Delaware shore? Trail fence complete
By Dennis Forney - Jul 16Monday, July 16, 2012 • Peak of the Summer Drew Lopuski says he isn't prone to seeing things. But last Saturday night, about 10:35 p.m, after ...
Yucca blooming, old inlet bridge disappearing
By Dennis Forney - Jun 1414 June 2012 - A gray and cloudy week Here are bits and pieces gleaned from observing over the past few days. Yuccas are blooming in the coastal ...
Prickly pears blooming on a foggy June morning
By Dennis Forney - Jun 011 June 2012 • ANOTHER FOGGY MORNING A quiet morning today, thick fog muffling most of the sound. Even the shrill cries of ospreys soak quickly ...
Three superintendents and a ride to the inlet
By Dennis Forney - May 2828 May 2012 The Overfalls Foundation held its annual kick-off fundraising party Friday night, May 25, at University of Delaware's Virden Center. ...
A foggy morning and trying to reach a conch fisherman
By Dennis Forney - May 2323 May 2012 The fog rolled in as thick as pea soup overnight and laid a calm slick over the canal and vessels moored at the city dock. The fog ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: With Vicki in Eugene
By Dennis Forney - May 22DAY 8 - Lots of rain today and they say it's snowing up in the Cascades where we're heading in a few days. We'll stop at Bill's house for a visit ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: A tree worthy of song
By Dennis Forney - May 19DAY 6 - Barefootin' Across America - Broke camp at the fairgrounds this morning at about 7:30. Nice place. Quiet. Pedaled on a bicycle trail ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: We've turned inland from the coast
By Dennis Forney - May 17DAY FOUR - I feel like I'm hogging the Cape Gazette Blog section but I said I would blog every day of this journey and I'm trying. Tonight we're ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: A small Dogfish world
By Dennis Forney - May 16We rode 30 miles the first day, ending in Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast. Astoria to Cannon Beach. Highway 101 southbound gave us a taste of ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: MAY 11 - Gone to look for America
By Dennis Forney - May 12“Headin' out to San Francisco, for a Labor Day weekend show. I've got my hush puppies on, I guess I never was meant for glitter, rock and roll.” – ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Thinking about the sun
By Dennis Forney - Apr 19Thinking about the sun as it's rising this morning. In a few weeks Becky and I will start pedaling east from Astoria, Oregon - destination Lewes ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Training is fun too
By Dennis Forney - Apr 16Training for a summer-long bicycle ride should be fun. Last Sunday we rode the Junction and Breakwater from Lewes to Rehoboth Beach. Boardwalk was ...
A foggy morning in Lewes
By Dennis Forney - Apr 12Storms coming across the country brought all kinds of foggy and raining conditions. I walked early this morning. Kevin Fleming passed me in his ...
SEA TO SHINING SEA: Let's get started
By Dennis Forney - Apr 11So, 12 years ago in the fall of 2001, in the week following the attack on the World Trade Center's twin towers, Becky and I railroaded west to ...
Polar plunge weekend starts with Friday snowfall
By Dennis Forney - Feb 01Snow started falling an hour after sunrise Friday. Small little flakes that promised to change the looks of the area for a few hours. I grabbed a ...
Coastal Aid, God and the Pacific Northwest
By Dennis Forney - Nov 21I hope everyone has a nice holiday being thankful for many blessings. The Coastal Aid fundraiser at the Rusty Rudder was awesome. Lots of good ...
Healthy Elvis, My Antonia and Cortadito in Rehoboth Beach
By Dennis Forney - Nov 06Rode the Junction and Breakwater Trail to Rehoboth Beach from Lewes two times over the weekend. Beautiful fall outdoors. The trail amazingly dry ...
Sandy driving barometer way down!
By Dennis Forney - Oct 29Sandy has driven the barometer down to territory I've never seen before and that's not good. As the light goes down and the storm races closer to ...
From Delaware to Maine with good brews too
By Dennis Forney - Oct 24I made a trip to Camden, Maine last week to visit the Cape Gazette's Village Soup partners on their home turf. Here are a few photos from that ...
Wild clematis, goldenrod and early morning mist
By Dennis Forney - Sep 1414 September 2012 • Glorious September Here are a few photos from early morning rambles. Like a very early snowfall, wild clematis is blooming ...
Bits and pieces from around the region
By Dennis Forney - Sep 03I keep a collection of photographs going until I can write a blog about them or put them together for a poo poo platter of images. These are from ...
Exploring the upper Chesapeake - Havre de Grace
By Dennis Forney - Aug 21TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 • Woodland Creek • Sassafras River In The Year of Many Lords Taking a week off, though never really off. Spent yesterday ...
Gaffney signs off from WGMD
By Dennis Forney - Jul 18One of the most recognizable voices in Sussex County signed off the air Wednesday morning. WGMD-FM's morning radio show host Dan Gaffney said he ...
Delaware crops, shingle shots, real estate - not
By Dennis Forney - Jun 2929 June 2012 • 100 degrees plus today Here's some Delaware crop information issued recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Before ...
Indian River Inlet Bridge and a full moon
By Dennis Forney - Jun 044 June 2012 This is my father's birthday. He's gone now to heaven. My brother-in-law Cawood called him G Robert though his name was Robert ...
Spiders, marsh beauty, porch crash and vulture
By Dennis Forney - May 3131 May 2012 MORNING WALK • LOTS OF BUZZ It's a routine walk every morning from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. Northeast on Savannah Road in Lewes, through the ...
Coastal towns getting ready for Memorial Day weekend
By Dennis Forney - May 2424 May 2012 Like householders getting ready for a party, Lewes and Rehoboth Beach - and Delaware's other coastal communities - are getting all ...
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