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February 17, 2021 - Hanson to Pembroke

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  Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail .  To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here . On the left, the planned route from N back to the road, then on past the Pembroke Town Forest.  On the right, what we really did. Back in the day when I had a job (in the rapidly receding past), I shared an office with Naomi. We had our little jokes as co-workers do and one long running one was using the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for profane acronyms. The NATO Phonetic Alphabet is the one used by the military for clear spelling over the air, e.g. “Alpha Bravo”. We’d take a “dirty word” and use the “military spelling”. A favorite example was calling someone a “Delta Bravo”.  I still revert to those epithets today. Another favorite wa...