Seventh Day, 14 June 2008

Back and forth on Tom Wheeler, from 184(parked) to Pequot Trail

Tom Wheeler is quiet road that runs south directly across form 184, in fact they probabaly once shared the same name. Tom Wheeler is more developed especially as you go south and closer to the interstate. On the way down I saw more bicycles than cars, 4 to 2 and about even on the way back.

Another nice morning and another nice road. All paved about 2.4 miles one way. The road starts with a farm on little hill, with wild roses all over then over a little rise to another pair of small farms. Domino had to climb a stone wall to see some cows and she didn't want to leave them.

At the bottom of a little rise are a bunch of driveways and mailboxes, then crosses a little swamp with a few small stream crossings, so small that stone walls go across the streams at the roadside. After a little bend in the road is a big old stately farm house, bigger than most colonial houses with a bunch of kept out buildings, groomed lawns and a couple of dammed ponds. A place I have seen many times from the bike but especially nice to check out by foot. near the turn around point is first a horse farm then the road is lined with houses.

Besides wild roses, mountain laurel, honey suckle and another flowering shrub are in bloom.

All in and all a nice paved road walk on a quiet little traveled road.

Next leg: Pequot Trail to Old Mystic or start of Pequot woods.