Hi Darlin’!
Had a wonderful quiet night sleep without earplugs, so lovely! The temps cooled down just as I thought it would, so I slept like a baby. Got up and did my chores, had breakfast, then saddled up Flash for our first ride here. There aren’t a lot of trails, but I did manage to plot out one loop, plus a litte extra just for fun. Just before I left a man came and parked in the lot here, I thought he was just having lunch but evidently he was doing some kind of bible study. We started off on a short linear road down to one of the parking lots. The first part had some small gravel on it, not enough for me to worry about boots yet, then it changed to a nice grass road that didn’t bother Flash too much. It was only half a mile, so we were back to camp in no time. We passed through and followed the horse trail, and it was a bit gravelly at times, enough for me to put the boots on, then about 100 feet later it turned into grass again, so I took them off again. Really, it’s tiny gravel anyway, and I thought it would be worse to put the boots on and irritate his bulbs, which are still healing from last week. It was fairly straight forward for awhile, then it started getting much more challenging as we started to climb. It reminded me of the “extreme” trail at Hocking Hills in Ohio, with some slippery rock (even though it was dry!), and some fairly steep and narrow sections. I kept having to push trees away from my knees again, not a fan of trails with trees practically growing in them! Then we had one wrong turn that gave us pause. The real trail switchbacked off to the right, but the trail we were on appeared to go straight ahead, so I never saw it. We didn’t get very far, lots of fallen trees, and the trail kept getting narrower, so I finally dismounted and tied Flash up and walked back to see where we must have gone wrong. I found the turn, not too far back, fortunately, so I went back and walked Flash out of that mess. He was slipping on rock like crazy! Finally it got flat enough to mount back up and we carried on, and weren’t far off from the top where it smoothed out again. Think this is one of those “one and done” trails, not sure I want to go back on that one! It was nice and wide for awhile, then the final turn home was along the creek, where it got more narrow and trickier, but not as bad as the earlier section. Met up with a church group on a hike, so naturally they all wanted to say hi to Lola and Flash, so I stopped for a minute. Got back to camp just before two, the bible study guy was STILL there, but he left shortly afterward. I had to fix the hose again before rinsing off Flash, then finally settled down for the afternoon to some computer work and reading. It was evening when the camphost came by to collect the fee, just $8 a night here, not bad! There’s a manure bin, there’s good access to water, and I managed to get a couple of hours of sun on my solar panel. I did run the generator for about thirty minutes to charge the battery and my electronics, and put the AC on just to blow the hot air out. Took my shower, too, so I’m all settled in for the evening. All this quiet and fresh air are lulling me back into earlier bed times, which is just fine with me! One more show on TV and I’ll be off to bed, so good night, my sweet! Love you!
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