March 17 - Newbury

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail . To get new posts in your inbox, please subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left. If you are curious how this all started, go here . From the circled P to the purple asterisk Gotta keep the riff raff out, because they're drawn to historic New England properties like flies to honey (this is the driveway to the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm). Walter and I were last here back in June , when on an unseasonably cool day we took Sulu bikejoring to Plum Island. We ended our trip at the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm , with Walter being turned into a raisin by relentless mosquitoes. This time I parked at the historic house, which is mostly shut down but still seems to be hosting school groups. Coming out the front entrance onto Route 1, I was immediately struck by the neighborhoo...