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Tails from the Bike: week 1, part 2

Sunday, after church and lunch, HB and I headed out to Concord for our first true cycling adventure. We biked the battle trail (it follows the battles of the first day of the Revolution) which is really very pretty and nice.

We started at the Minute Man visitor center (the one with the multi-dimensional recreation/presentation of the initial battle of the Revolution) and biked toward the Old North Bridge.

Since we’d seen the sites previously on foot, we didn’t stop and look much, we just utilized the well-laid-out trail. We did stop near the Hartwell Tavern, because this was the first time we’d ever seen sheep in the fields and spaces near the trail.

Note that this picture of the Hartwell Tavern was taken on a different trip, during the summer season.

Very pastoral, eh? Note the traditional New England stone wall.

We biked all of the way through downtown Concord and to the Old North Bridge where we got to overhear part of a tour guide’s spiel about the battle at the bridge.

After a break at the bridge, we biked downtown, locked our bikes up, went in a couple of shops and stopped for ice-cream. Mmmmm… chocolate with peanut butter sauce… eaten on a nice shaded bench.

All in all, it was definitely a good inaugural biking weekend.