Today is a new adventure for us!!! Because we have a lot of ‘rails-to-trails’ to cover in these sections we decided to try and bike it- weather was sunny and in the 50s- so almost perfect. Although it did take us a little longer to load/unload the bikes, we figured we would try about 11 miles and see how our bottoms held up. Not many walkers to worry about, which was good since our riding skills are rusty, and the terrain was VERY flat. Of additional interest, these sections of BT around Norwalk share the North Coast Inland Trails (NCIT), which runs along northern Ohio, and is clearly marked with signage along the way. The biking went by pretty fast (even though I’m slow, or as April put it, “the weak link” in the group) and before we knew it we were in the town of Norwalk, which was already known to April because of its fabric store with low prices and quality materials (luckily for me it was closed on Sundays). We had lunch in a little park and walked through the town, which was flanked on both sides by beautiful, historic old homes. This gave the impression that there was money at one time, not sure why, but it was still doing pretty well for itself by the looks of things. Very nice old theater and antiques store (couldn’t escape that one). It sure will be nice when COVID is over and we feel more comfortable going into places. A RR bridge after the town pointed out that the rail line we were biking went all the way to NYC- WOW! The rest of our trip was uneventful except that we almost ran over a baby snake crossing the path (I think it is a ‘brown’ snake- really, that’s its name). At the end, we decided our bottoms could have taken a little more riding if we had given them a rest, but we also decided that we DEFINITELY didn’t get enough time to talk very much! So maybe next bike outing we will ride a little further and take more ‘talking’ breaks.
