The other car was thinking the same things, so we turned at the Potter Trailhead and did a short walk along the Old Johnson trail. (Alaska Hike Search calls it the Turnagain Arm trail, but says 'Some of the locals refer to this as the Old Johnson Trail.")
We didn't go all that far; to a rocky viewpoint over the inlet. We had some people recovering from foot and leg issues and someone who had to get back by 5pm. The view was spectacular as the tide was out and the clouds were reflected dreamily on the wet.
And my granddaughter got to see her first moose on the hike. I think she would have felt safer had we been in a car rather than on foot. But no harm. The moose was eating a little above the trail. Others in the group were waiting for it to move further away. I think the moose was thinking, 'Just go on. I see you and I'm eating and why should I have to move just because you want to go by. Just go."
Today's paper said there was an accident further down the road involving four cars and a boat being towed. So changing plans meant we spent our time in the woods instead of in the car. And in the pre cell phone age, we could have pulled by the side of the road and waited for the other car to catch up. But that would only work if the first car wanted to make a change.
Good decision on the traffic snarl the other day.
ReplyDeleteLife goes on, each day without a functioning US government. Likewise, in the UK, we hold to a plot dissolving political ties to the EU, so we may become good trading partners instead.
In both our countries, there was a vote to 'reform' relations with the world by closing our borders to make us stronger. It is so frustratingly, destructively sad, that we now reap the wind.