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| North Anna Battlefield Park |
There was an easy path to follow.
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| North Anna Battlefield Park |
The path quickly became covered with leaves but it was still an easy walk.
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| North Anna Battlefield Park |
We walked beside and/or over several different little creeks. And then, then we came to the sign.
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| Dangerous Slope |
You see, before we crossed the first creek, we'd had to choose between taking the Blue path or the Gray path. Sarah let me choose after telling me only that the Blue path was a little longer than the Gray path. It was a beautiful day and we both needed some exercise so I chose Blue.
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| North Anna Battlefield Park |
Let me tell you people - if given the choice, never, ever choose the Blue path. When allowing me to make the choice between Blue & Gray, Sarah never bothered to mention that the website has a Blue Path warning. We had to walk, slip, slide & crawl from the top of one mini-mountain to the top of the next.
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| North Anna Battlefield Park |
And while we walked, slid, climbed & crawled, we could barely even see the path under all the fallen leaves.
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| North Anna River |
A few minor heart attacks later, we finally made our way to the river which marks the end of the trail.
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| North Anna River |
It's a pretty little river, but wait.... We're at the end of the trail. The trail doesn't loop back around? I've just suffered about 16 minor heart attacks climbing up and down hills and now I have to turn around and do it all over again? In reverse? Needless to say, my dear daughter is no longer the favorite child.
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| Toad |
We eventually made it out of the woods and back to the glorious sight of our car. The only wild life we saw, thankfully was one very large toad.
And after all that, somehow, my dear daughter has talked me into going back next week to give the Gray Path a try.
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