I had a couple of short hikes planned for today, but I let the weather get the best of me. Just as well. It's pouring down out there now. The hikes will have to wait.

So what to do? Maybe time to kick back and do some reading...

Backpacker, Outside and National Geographic Adventure magazines all arrived in the mail this week, so I think I'll start on them first.

I also want to take some more serious notes on a possible cross-Ireland trek from Paddy Dillon's The Irish Coast to Coast Walk. Three weeks wandering through the green fields and hills and mountains of the old country, cozy inns, friendly people, friendly pubs. Yeah, that could be just the ticket...

If I still have the energy, I've got to get cracking on The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, a traveller's classic that I've somehow overlooked all this time. It's "Kerouac living his dream as a Zen lunatic and rucksack wanderer on the fabled golden shore of West Coast America." I like the sound of that!

And if the rain continues, which it likely will, maybe I'll take another stab at Introduction to Philosophy by William James Earle.

It's quite a stack of stuff, but hey, it's a rainy Sunday, so what the heck. I'll make up for it next week hiking and biking in Acadia, I promise...

What did you do to get through the rainy weekend?