If youāre reading the title to this blog entry youāre probably wondering what on earth is going on. Am I mounting an expedition to find trolls? Eh, I wonāt say Iām not trying to find trolls but thatās not what was going on in this entry. I did not set out today in order to explore under some random unnamed bridge buuuutā¦ you know, things like this tend to just happen in my life and I couldnāt be any happier about that.
Unlike most of my recent outings I really did have a destination set today. There were rumors of āmore than thirteen miles of trails!ā in the Brooks Woodland Preserve and that sounded pretty nice on a rainy day like this. So I drove about 45 minutes and half a mile from my destination I saw the road I needed (Quaker Drive) was closed. More specifically the bridge was out. But I could see the bridge so I drove up to it anyway because sometimes bridges have turn-offs to park and delightful little scenic areas below. I was NOT disappointed! Just as I had hoped there was space for a car, maybe two, and it was so breath takingly beautiful I am still at a loss for words. It was like a whole different world out there ā moss covered rocks cuddled up in a burbling little river out in the woods, no one else aroundā¦ like stumbling into Utopia! And I wasnāt the only one to find this place. Someone had left a rake behind and someone else left a little Tuperware box full of random trinkets and toys nestled in a stone wall ā I am guessing it was a GeoCache. It did seem aimed at small children. And I was so delighted to find it as in all my hiking adventures Iād never come across a GeoCache by happenstance. Itās like finding treasure ā really sad plastic treasure, but treasure none the less! I have to read up on GeoCachesā¦ Iām not sure if I was supposed to leave something? I should have left a marbleā¦
Anyway, I messed around in this one gorgeous spot for way too long before deciding to find the other end of this road in the hopes of getting to that trail in the Brooks Woodland Preserve but before I did that I took a sweet little amble through the Ledgeville Cemetery down the road.
