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Anniversary Picnic Redux
Oct. 13th, 2021 06:58 pmThe plans for Lisa and my 25th wedding anniversary started very large (New Zealand trip to replace the cancelled CoNZealand trip), shrunk to middling (take a few days off and drive to Ely, spending a few nights there and riding the Nevada Northern Railway), and then came back to small. Day Jobbe wouldn't have allowed me to take more than a half-day off from work at the moment anyway, so that's what I did, and we repeated what we did a year ago today: a drive to Fort Churchill State Historic Park south of Silver Springs.
( Nice Lunch )
It was an excellent lunch, although slightly chilly whenever the sun went behind a cloud. After we ate, cleaned up our trash, and put things away in the van, we knew we needed to go for a walk because we were both very full. Fortunately, Fort Churchill is a good place to go walking.
( Nice Walk )
We walked up to the trail that loops around the Fort Churchill ruins, but there were some other people on the trail coming the other way, so we reversed course and headed around a different trail, the Buckland Loop, which eventually leads back to the Railroad Trail and then the Nature Trail that runs back to the picnic area. By my pedometer, we must have hiked around 5 km or so, which was good, but we felt it in our legs.
It was certainly time to go when we got back to the van, as I don't like driving the highway from Silver Springs to Fernley at night. We got home just before sunset, tired but happy enough with our half-day vacation. It doesn't mean we don't want to go places and see things, but it will have to wait until we feel safer doing so.
( Nice Lunch )
It was an excellent lunch, although slightly chilly whenever the sun went behind a cloud. After we ate, cleaned up our trash, and put things away in the van, we knew we needed to go for a walk because we were both very full. Fortunately, Fort Churchill is a good place to go walking.
( Nice Walk )
We walked up to the trail that loops around the Fort Churchill ruins, but there were some other people on the trail coming the other way, so we reversed course and headed around a different trail, the Buckland Loop, which eventually leads back to the Railroad Trail and then the Nature Trail that runs back to the picnic area. By my pedometer, we must have hiked around 5 km or so, which was good, but we felt it in our legs.
It was certainly time to go when we got back to the van, as I don't like driving the highway from Silver Springs to Fernley at night. We got home just before sunset, tired but happy enough with our half-day vacation. It doesn't mean we don't want to go places and see things, but it will have to wait until we feel safer doing so.
