Truth and Fiction

Today we finished this hike for this year. We did the middle third of the Conservation Trail, a branch of the Finger Lakes Trail system. We'd previously done the southern third, and next year we'll finish the north end where it connects with the Bruce Trail in Ontario. This year's section was 57.6 miles. This is true. (Larry did 25.2)

There were beginning signs of autumn. Well it is September. Also true.

Folsomdale, New York, was established in 1823, and there was a covered bridge there across Cayuga Creek (not the same Cayuga Creek as in Tompkins County). It was replaced in 1927 with a boring concrete bridge. Interesingly enough, the village was originally called Scottsville. This house looks like it was one of the first buildings in the area, perhaps an inn.

Here's where the fiction comes in. We crossed Schoellkopf Road. The last name of the "stranger who comes to town" in the most recent of the Dead Mule Swamp books (DMS Singer) is Schoellkopf. I "stole" the name from the stadium at Cornell University which is Schoellkopf Field. My guess is that most of the people of that name in New York are related.

This hike is one big progressive dinner. Sort of fiction. We ate five days of trail food, but last night brother Steve and Karen fed us wonderfully, and tonight Larry and Pam put out a spread of fresh vegetables and fruits, with baked salmon.

We played a card game (I like that Marie's family plays games, because not many other people in my life like games), and then we Zoomed with Anja.

Pam and Larry always seem happy to have me around.

Tomorrow, we continue to migrate eastward.

Conservation Trail. 6.5 miles, corner of Bear and Bailey Roads to Getman Road.

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