AUGUST 2017

I have vowed to stay current on this blog going forward!  Weeks or months afterward, it is too hard for me to remember details from some of our adventures.  It would help if I would journal each day like I did while hiking the Appalachian Trail.  On that hike I made the effort at the end of each day to write about my day and even then I omitted a lot of details due to being so tired from slogging up and down mountains all day with a too heavy pack on my back all I really wanted to do was sleep!

Tom and I discovered the Katy Trail in Dallas.  It is an urban trail but walking on it gives you the feeling of being out in nature.

                                        BooBoo goes to the city!

 At the present time, the Katy Trail is only four miles long.  Work is ongoing to extend it even further out into the northern suburbs of Dallas.

 One great thing is there is a softer rubberized jogging path and a concrete path running side by side.

 About halfway along we detoured a block off the Trail to treat ourselves at the historic Highland Park Soda Fountain.  Tom had a sandwich and I had a chocolate milk shake!  And lots of ice water!

 It is a very warm day in August and we are so thankful for the shady places.

                The landscaping along the Trail was just wonderful!

 We drove in to White Rock Station on the DART Rail line where we parked our car, and rode the train to the next station to pick up the northern end of the Katy Trail.  Our original plan for this day was to walk the four miles on the Katy Trail to downtown and then walk back however once we made it to downtown, we walked past the American Airlines Center to the West End to Dick's Last Resort stopping there for a late lunch and afterward decided to grab the train back to White Rock Station to our car!

 I guess all the walking we did at the beginning to find the north end of the Katy Trail, then the walking in downtown Dallas at the end of the Trail was enough for us on this hot day!

We did a spontaneous trip to Spokane, Washington to visit Tom's brother, Tim and wife Kathy and also Tom's niece Megan and husband Austen and her boys, Nelson and Henry.

I will save that for my next post..........