Pittsburgh, Michigan, and Sundsvall!!
Above: Deadeye Spear Chuckin ' Hope, showing proper form (especially with the tongue sticking out) in the use of the atlatl ... We started our most recent epic journey with a visit to Hopewell Culture National Park in Chilicothe , Ohio. This is a Woodland Period set of mound complexes: We left Arkansas on a Friday, and drove to Lexington, Kentucky, for our first night. The next day, we went to this park in Ohio to see the mounds and to meet up with Hope's parents. We did not expect to see a woodchuck that had climbed a tree: I had never seen this behavior in woodchucks before, but apparently this fairly young woodchuck was hiding in this tree to avoid some large bird of prey which had been circling the field in which we were walking to see the mounds. I swapped vehicles with Rich and Ann Pruden --they accompanied Hope and the kids to their house in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, while I continued onward in their car to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a meeting. Below is the s...