Day 22 - Wednesday, September 24, 2014

As usual, took my hand-sized Native Baby Doll out at the 3 km mark and photographed her.

The highlight of the day was turkeys.  Pauline as usual was ahead of me.  Dean had moved the Rav, now know affectionately as "RAVioli" and was likely walking back towards us.  I could see Pauline crossing the road to take a photo.  I figured some farm animals that she could email to her grand-daughter.  As I got nearer I could see it was fowl, and that there was a pond.  As I got nearer yet, Pauline closed her iPad and headed back to the highway.  That's when I spotted the turkeys who were following her and heading for the road.  I put my hand out to stop the oncoming car and I crossed over towards the turkeys.  They were bent on coming with us.  So I started encouraging back to the yard. I had to take them all the way into the driveway before they decided to stay home.  Meanwhile I had my iPhone in hand and got some captures of them.  I've never been so close to free-ranging turkeys.  They had amazing colours on their feathers. Pauline is an animal magnet_the goats we saw later on also came forward and cried out.  Fortunately, they were in enclosures.  I like to think I was the animal saviour today!

We continued on US route 5, as we are limited to most of the rest of the way.  Pauline was still ahead when I saw "Save Fine Olde Barns".  Even though I called out to her at least two times, she could not hear me because of the distance separating us and the noise of the passing cars.  I would have liked a photo of myself beside this structure that usually is found on top of a barn.  It was much taller than I imagined when I saw others on top of barns!  Anyway, you will have to take my word for it.  I also would have liked to explore the property a bit more.  As Pauline was carrying on and oblivious to my stop,  I moved on too.

I had hoped I would drive back this way when we headed home but since we were close to an entrance to the interstate, that was not in the realm of possibility.

It always seem longer to go back to our campsite after a day's walk.  Today we did 21.93 kms in 4 hrs and 45 minutes.  Better than Dean expected when he saw me hobbling about this morning.  Taking two of his ibuprofen helped.  The moleskin Dean put over my blister rolled up and stuck to my sock instead of my skin.  The blister got bigger.  When we got back to our campsite, Pauline and I both soaked our feet in hot water and Epsom salts for a second night.

For supper we had freeze dried Pineapple Orange Chicken with organic chickpeas, bread, cheese, nut-thin crackers and wine.