Although we had fun in the city, I was looking forward to getting out of the din and back to rural roads and folk culture so today we did. Making partial use of the well know minuteman rail trail we traveled to Walden Pond as a group of four.

Fernandez Brothers always wear helmets

It was a perfect day to be at Walden with warm sun and warm water. Although I’ve passed within a few hundred feet of it on multiple occasions I have never gone to visit the Thoreau cabin site so we did that today. The cabin site itself it neat, but I was really moved by the pile of rocks that has accumulated next to the site commemorating people’s lives and loved ones. I’d like to think our purpose for the bike trip aren’t so different than the one Thoreau is describing on this sign.

Eventually an afternoon thunderstorm drove everyone out of the water so we went into the town of Concord for dinner and provisions.

The Scout House is under construction. We locked up the bikes to trees and scaffolding and put on our dance shoes and Tour de Dance shirts. All told we were represented by five yellow shirts at the dance and once again enjoyed the promotional assistance of Lisa Greenleaf who, as she did in Rehoboth, was nice enough to announce our own invitation to the Tour de Dance. We met one cyclist who appeared to be serially considering joining us from Concord to Falcon Ridge. In the end he decided to pass, but maybe we can recruit him for the next trip!