Our Morning Stroll

Here, with little or no commentary, are some photos from the walk/stroll/hike that Sam and I went o this morning. This was our first visit here, to Neighboring Town #3, at least, for walking/strolling/hiking. It was kind of a last minute act of desperation.

Sam and I keep a list of various possible destinations for our now-daily walks, but the list is only filled with a dozen or so places. Needless to say, it's been in heavy rotation for quite some time.

I'm not sure how this place jumped to mind this morning- but it did, so off we went.

Some of the photos are fairly blurry, which I think is either due to the profuse amount of sweat pouring out of my still (very) out-of-shape body, or it could be due to my near-constant swatting away at flies and mosquitoes.

Other than my sweat and the flies and mosquitoes (and, oh yeah, my well-known fear of heights), the walk/stroll/hike was a lot of fun.

I don't understand why there are stone walls in some of the wooded places we walk. Here we are in the middle of nowhere, in a deep, thick forest - and for some reason, there's a massively long old stone wall. We see this kind of thing when we go on some of the paths near the tower, as well. They must be at least a hundred years old. Probably older.

Why were these built? I'm assuming they were once for property lines, but really, I have no idea. It must have been a ton of work. This one went on for at least a couple hundred yards.

Here's a closer look (though, I suppose, when you've seen one old stone wall, you've seen them all)...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, painting rocks and placing them along various paths has been "a thing". Like the mystery of the stone walls, I'm not exactly sure why this was done and I'm definitely not sure by whom. Back in the early spring, at the beginning of what's turned into Sam and my months-long walk-a-thon, we used to see them scattered about the sidewalks and the woods, usually with messages like, "Peace" or "Be Yourself" or "You can do it!". Stuff like that. I had kind of forgotten about them because I hadn't seen them for a while - but this morning, I came across this one which, also like the stone walls, was out in the middle of nowhere...

And finally, our destination...

Beautiful view, even if you hate heights. (Just don't get to close to the edge ... or it will pull you over.)