canal walk

This morning Lydia arrived to walk with a waffle iron.

When I told Pat we were walking today she told Lyd to bring the iron. Clearly she was hungry for waffles. Odd, because she is never hungry for anything. And she didn't eat a waffle!

We should have walked first and ate second. Dang it was hot humid.

We drove to the canal entrance in Freemansburg. We didn't see the canal at first and I new where the towpath was. I has been filled in with weeds as tall as it's walls. It's 100+ years old, I fear the weeds may destroy it forever. At places on the path we couldn't even see remnants of the canal.

Because the locktenders house and the mule barn were east, we headed to Bethlehem Township. That took about 90 seconds. It was only .1 miles away. Once in BT we headed toward Palmer. I figured we'd walk about a half hour and turn around and come back. We met lots of bikers, and several forgot about passing on the left.

About 15 minutes in, we found the swimming hole. There was evidence before and after, but this is clearly the place to climb, hang your rope and jump in the river.

In what I thought was 30 minutes, I don't wear a watch, I had Lyd check her phone and we were at 1.5 miles. We turned around and started the return to Freemansburg.

I had thought about heading towards Bethlehem a bit. But when we started to walk to Bethlehem we encountered the orange sign. "Caution Towpath Closed —Storm Damage". Must be washed out places. People were walking/biking so it must be clear-ish. The storm was almost a year ago. Guess there is no money in the budget to fix it. That's a shame.

This bit of the canal was less weedy and had tiny bits of water in it.