A Short Walk on a Long Trail: A couple's sauntering on the Vermont Long Trail

Jane V. Blanchard

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BIOGRAPHY
"I love going on an adventure and then telling you about it."

Jane V. Blanchard is the author of the Woman on Her Way series. Her books describe hiking adventures. She enjoys biking and hiking and, over her lifetime, climbed twenty of the forty 4,000-foot mountains in New England. She retired in 2011 to walk 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago in Spain—her first long walk. Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino mingles Jane's personal story with conversations with other modern-day female pilgrims on the Camino. Her other award-winning book, Camino Tips, How to get the most out of The Way, helps pilgrims plan, enjoy, and get the most out of their journey.

Jane shares her discoveries along the 84-mile path across northern England in her award-winning Hadrian's Wall Path: Walking into History. Read why this adventure was more than she had expected and why the book became the Recipient of the prestigious 2015 President's Award from the Florida Authors & Publisher's Association in the adult, non-fiction category.

To celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, Jane and her husband, Dennis, hiked the Vermont Long Trail. It was challenging hiking during a summer of record-breaking cold temperatures, unprecedented rainfall, and a worsening allergy to the local grasses. As co-authors of A Short Walk on a Long Trail: A Couple's Sauntering on the Vermont Long Trail, the memoir won the 2022 Gold Medal Recipient from Florida Authors and Publishers Association.

Jane has always been adventuresome, building a log cabin with her husband and living off the grid, working a gentleman's farm, hiking the peaks of New England, and racing mountain bikes in her 50s. Since retiring in 2011, she has visited sixteen countries by foot and bicycle and written seven books about her wanderings.

As a septuagenarian, Jane continues traveling and blogging and enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.