We had a marvelous day today, even if we had more rain! It started out great, so we struck off for Cranberry, PA where there is a beautiful hiking/biking trail on Sandy Creek. They also have geo-caches along the trail, so that was a plus! We even found our D5 cache, meaning it was the highest degree of difficulty to find and we needed one to obtain our souvenir for the 15 years of geo-caching. It was on one of the bridges that crosses the Sandy Creek Trail, and Jim retrieved it. It's called 'Catwalk' so I'll let you imagine what he had to do to get it. His ankle is much better! Then we ran into a couple hiking on the path, and we stopped to talk to them (imagine that!) and come to realize that he was very instrumental in getting approval of making this a bike/hike path. It was originally an ATV trail, and it is in the works to be part of a trail that extends from Lake Erie to Pittsburgh, and continue on to Washington D.C. We left that couple and found one more cache and heard the clap of thunder! Jim said it was time to turn around, and this time I didn't balk, as we could see the dark clouds rolling in. We made it back to the truck, loaded up our bikes and the rain started! We came back to Tionesta, and took our nut bread to the visitor center to give to our friends, who volunteer there. We met them in 2010, and have kept in touch with them since. We didn't tell them that we were coming, and we walked in, and Evie just sat in a stupor. John said, 'well, my goodness, it's Jim and Marlene'! We stayed and chatted with them for two hours. Of course, we bought t-shirts and post cards! They wanted to see us tomorrow, but we have plans to bike again in Clarion PA, and we know we need to leave early as it will be late when we get back. We agreed to meet them at their place tomorrow evening. John likes beer, so we'll take along a few WI beers to share with them. It was another 10 day!
What fun! On Wisconsin!
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