close to five

Yesterday Bonnie and I did a test walk for the Firecracker 4 miler. We wanted to see if she could go the distance. She could.

We planned to meet at 7 again to beat the heat. At 7:30 I called and said "are you coming?" I woke her up. A little after 8 we hit the asphalt.

We walked from my house down to the Greenway. A little after Hayes street, there are no more trees. Just open sunny area. This is the newest section of the trail that will go under Fourth street and head into Saucon Park. There it will meet the Saucon Tail, which heads to Coopersburg.

We took the picture under the 4th street bridge. And decided not to go any further. No shade for as far as we could see. We would have baked. Another day, we'll bring the car down, park, and walk to Hellertown and check-out the new trail and the connection. Last time we walked on the Saucon trail it was stones and not easy to walk on.

We came back fourth street where the buildings provided some shade. We stopped at Alexandra's Bistro and had breakfast. Some of you might know it as the Blue Anchor. A old dive diner on Fourth street. It burnt down a few years ago and Alexandra's replaced it.

The waitress was chatty because she knew we were walkers—sweaty, stinky and guzzling water—lost 40 pounds by walking. She offered us a pitcher of ice water.

The walk turned out to be about 4.5 miles. When I called Bonnie later in the day to see if she wanted to go to the Pigs game, she was too tired. But she is working her way back.