Madison

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Two legs in one week, WOW. This walk  is turning into a series of in and outs with a loop in there somewhere if I am lucky.

Today's walk- to a dead end-was too long for one day (in this new world of mine) but too short for 2 walks, so we will see.

 I started at the park where I turned around last time (Lowry Park, Madison)and headed down Rte 1 and Neck Rd. I  decided to just go the East River and then pick it up the other side. So I am skipping a bridge farther north, but I am also skipping a crappy walk on a section of route 1 and 146 while staying close to the shore with better shoreline views* and less traffic* (* at least in theory)

A  cool day with 42 at home and 50 at start. A steady easterly wind made it seem cooler esp along water with no trees. I like it, Dom likes it.

Neck Rd, where I rode the bike years ago and remember little about it, is a nice road along a peninsula that goes west from mainland and ends at a marsh/boat ramp type place. hard to see what it would be like from looking at map.

Neck rd starts as a straight as an arrow rd with abunch of those  little streets left towards the sound, with all too familiar patch of water in the distance and the all too familiar "private" signs with all that stuff.

The road turns a bit and into some wooded sides and then views of the salt marsh north and to the west appear. After a 90 degree turn south and then another 90 to the west, the sound was in full view, in fact one of the rare places where you can walk along it unobstructed by houses.

A little turn and the road goes right long it. Today it was choppy. and it is here that the fury of the storms is evident, 6 foot high mounds of sand border the road, house are in various stages of disrepair and there are hour lot size gaps between standing houses.

I was doing pretty good (I should  take Aleve more often)but didn't want to press it, so we stopped for snack and water and turned around. This was at the Madison Guilford town lie/ It was probably only a mile or so to the actually turn around point-where water would let us go no farther west, but I didn't want to push it today.

Stats 4.3 miles.  time 1:52. car drive: about 50 miles each way. gas 3.43