A Very Active Day for the Happy Campers

After a good nights sleep, Ken and I had a great breakfast in Willie and then packed our lunches and loaded up the bikes for our day's adventure!  The 6 of us drove in Martin's truck with the 6 bikes and headed to the town of Highland to walk the Walkway Over the Hudson.  It is a 1.28 mile walk across the Hudson River to the town of Poughkeepsie.  The walkway soars 212 feet above the Hudson and nearly 1 million rivets hold the bridge's 20,000 tons of steel together.  It is the world's longest elevated pedestrian bridge and hosts over 500,000 visitors annually.  It really is worth seeing!

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Bridge seen from the Walkway!

After eating our picnic lunches, we headed to the Wallkill Rail Trail in New Paltz and road our bikes on the trail for a total of 10 miles.  A beautiful trail, but rather narrow and rather stony.  The noise of the cicadas was unbelievable and they were everywhere.  Didn't realize how loud they could be.

From the bike trail we could see the lookout tower
we climbed yesterday.  That climb gave us quite a view!!

Back to the CG by 6:15 to shower and get dinner ready.  We cooked over the open fire and then sat around chatting until 10:15.

Fun day with special friends!