Week 177
11/23/18 A potentially dangerous adventure
Medway has a tradition for the Saturday after Thanksgiving of a Christmas parade followed by fireworks. We decided to skip the parade and speeches this year but at the last minute headed to see the fireworks. Parking lots were full and street parking was backed far up the street so we walked. There is a trail from the High School of about a mile and a half to the park that is mostly through the woods. It was night and we had no flashlight so we used a phone to show us where the puddles were.
When we got to the park, the trail was blocked by caution tape. We figured it was just there to block off a large wet area in a field. (It's been a bit floody this season.) so we bypassed the tape and tried to get around the big wet area with no success. There was a narrow board spanning it and I knew I couldn't make it with my questionable balance so we waited there. A few families with small children also came out of the woods. I heard them talking to a cop who appeared. He told them that the caution tape was keeping people away from where the fireworks were being detonated and that they should quickly get across the wet area. Oh. When he saw us, it was too late, and I wasn't going across the board anyway, so we went back the way we came to the other side of the caution tape. He stayed on the fireworks side. We watched from very close with the fireworks straight overhead and dropping burning debris all around us. It wasn't likely to set any of the wet trees and ground on fire but I'm glad it didn't land on us.
11/24/18 New (to us) stretch of the Rail Trail
After the adventure of last night, we went on a calmer one the next day. There is a stretch of Rail Trail in Milford that we hadn't walked yet.
Paul worked in Milford so new many of these people.
