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Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Phase 1: Meadowlark Trail

S and D trekked, amid the various masked and unmasked hikers of Humpday, up and down the prairie Meadowlark Trail. Despite the trail’s name, our fearless adventurers encountered exactly zero meadowlarks. A few robins sauntered here and there, pecking worms and tufts of grass, while a plume of dust drifted north, across the the sunset, from an aggregate recycling plant that churned away in the distance.

Phase 2

We contemplated doing take-out, BYO-P2, sandwiches, pizza, a growler of soup, etc. We could even bring thermoses of coffee and books of haiku, for BYO-P3. Maybe next week.

All in all, another successful BNO.

Question of the Night

  1. Regarding the news that a team of drivers took advantage of the relatively empty road conditions during this pandemic, and achieved a new record on the “Cannonball Run,” we wondered: which came first, the movie or the drive?
    According to Wikipedia, “The film is based on the 1979 running of an actual cross-country outlaw road race beginning in Connecticut and ending in California.”

Addendum

We noted a couple of semi-relevant videos to watch during our isolated phases two and three this evening:

Hikers and dust, shadow and light.

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