A SUPER day for hiking! Sunny with a cool breeze all day! Was another all road day but a little more back road traveling. Pleasant surprise right at start with a cheery pedestrian tunnel under road to school across street! Feel bad for kids who didn’t get a joyous graduation send-off from school in this time of COVID. Was again a day of barns, we were all mesmerized by the fields of wheat (?) that undulated and flowed with the rhythms of the wind- you could just sit and watch it all day, like being at the ocean. There were also these two amazing yellow maple (?) trees along our route that just popped out of background! You couldn’t miss them. We talked a lot about what is the best small camper to travel/live in as we dream of becoming gypsies of sorts some day. Passed a couple who were hiking the BT in the opposite direction- husband was carrying a large backpack in training for a (hopeful) trip to Half Dome this summer. Also passed what seemed to be a peaceful George Floyd demonstration in a public gathering space in town- such a divided time we live in now on so many different levels; politics, health, race…its nice to step away from it into the sunshine for a brief respite. Finished day with a rewarding ice cream and learned a new concept: an adult milkshake = alcohol included! Why ruin a good thing?
