Parker Rd to Potter Rd, Hampton, CT Leg

It's really starting to feel like fall out there!  The Girl Child and I delighted in the chilly, gray morning and got ourselves out on the East Coast Greenway in Hampton, CT, today to check off another mile of trail. (We walked it out and back, so actually did 2 miles, but only the first one counts towards our journey. This is still the level I'm comfortable with, for now that's all we're going to do.  I certainly hope I'm able to start stretching that soon! Otherwise it's going to take me until I'm 120 to complete this journey!)

 

 

Despite the entire portion of the trail that we are walking in this part of Connecticut being a part of the Northern Airline Trail, which is overall a very well developed Rail Trail, the first part of this segment of the trail was a narrow, rocky single path. Once we got past Route 6 overpass, it widened back out to the two track we have become used to on this portion of the trail, which is much easier for me to walk. The loose footing on that first part was a little dicey with my knee.

Nature's creepy "graffiti" (above) and creepy human graffiti (below) on the overpass abutment.

Above, a side trail to the Goodwin State Forest Conservation Center.

Below, the end of this leg, and our turn-around point for today.  

59.5 miles walked, 111.5 miles traversed, 2888.5 miles to go!!