Hiking grandmother from Columbia forced off Appalachian Trail

The hiking grandmother from Columbia who wanted to raise money for impoverished African villages by hiking the length of the Appalachian Trail is off the famed pathway after three days of hiking.

Brenda Petroski, 60, cited “some sickness and just plain fatigue,” in her Appalachian Trail journal posting on Monday.

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What I saw recently

 Congrats, Columbia!
 NO                                                              ParKing
the blocks say.

 “Wood” you look at that?

 Part of the clockworks to the clock tower at the National Watch & Clock Museum

Also seen at NAWCC: vehicles from all over . . . 

On Sunday, a vehicle dueled with a pillar at the Wells Fargo building.  The big bank won, as they always do, and the vehicle limped away, battered and broken, leaving a trail of defeat.