Living in Vermont, I take for granted that I can go on a walk among trees and fields any time I want. For the past dozen-plus years, our dog Coda has taken somebody in the family on a walk at least twice a day, year-round. When we lived in Middlebury, although we often walked along sidewalks around the neighborhood where Coda could stop and sniff messages left by other neighborhood pets — “reading his daily pee-mail” as my wife said — we always had easy access to the Trail Around Middlebury. On the TAM we w … (read more)