two real walks in a row!

About two weeks ago I was contacted by someone who I used to walk with. I met her thru volkssport walking. She is a native Jamaican, and is a teacher's aide in the Easton School District. We were supposed to walk last week but it was just too hot. Today we went to the Karl Stirner Arts Trail. The best part was she never new it existed. 

She wasn't sure where the trail head was but she knew where the ice cream shop was at the Silk Mill. We began there.

We walked thru the lots and over the pedestrian bridge and turned left. Then we turned left again onto the "nature trail" and followed that back to the main trail. It comes out around the Easton Cemetery Gate. I took her down the musical path near the dog park and over the blue bridge. The blue bridge is now the young peoples art wall. We followed the path thru to the stairs at Lafayette College and turned around and came back.

Top: The gate by Lafayette. You can see the barracades down by the house. Bottom: the gate at 13th street. Mural on wall says "keep Going" multiple times with people in the background.  The same gate is at the blue bridge.

At the blue bridge is a new arch. The same one is at the 13th Street entrance. There is also one at Lafayette but it's different. There are also cement barriers on the street by Lafayette. Not at the entrances, but behind the Don Juan's parking lot, and then on the other end, right past the house. It is clearly no longer a through street

This time we didn't use the nature trail to come back. We kept on the art's trail. It was there that I found these words in the fence. Sorry, the pics are shitty. The first is Believe, then Love, then Create with a spiral, and finally Peace. I think that these are added by someone, not part of the regular art.

We went past the pedestrian bridge so she could see the 13th Street trailhead. (My arm was buzzing. Sharon's FitBit was having some sort of hissy fit. I ignored it.) Looking up 13th she knew exactly where it is located. Then we walked back to the bridge and the parking lots.

It turns out I hit 10K steps and apparently the FitBit celebrates.

Miles/Steps: 11K
Weather:      84s, sunny, breezy, not as humid
Surface:        gravel, dirt
SLF killed:    4
Wildlife:       Heard geese. Saw a doe driving home. She looked thin.