Bay Circuit Diary

  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 . On the left, the planned route from N back to the road, then on past the Pembroke Town Forest.  On the right, what we really did. Back in the day when I had a job (in the rapidly receding past), I shared an office with Naomi. We had our little jokes as co-workers do and one long running one was using the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for profane acronyms. The NATO Phonetic Alphabet is the one used by the military for clear spelling over the air, e.g. “Alpha Bravo”. We’d take a “dirty word” and use the “military spelling”. A favorite example was calling someone a “Delta Bravo”.  I still revert to those epithets today. Another favorite wa...

  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 H to M So much preparation for today’s trip! Yesterday, I went to REI and bought some gaiters to keep the snow out of my low boots. I made paw wax for Sulu to protect his feet in case there’s salt on the roads. I’m a bit disappointed in the paw wax: it’s too soft and I need to melt it down and add more beeswax. Today was my first snowy day walk. Walter and I have dueling weather apps and mine predicted the snow would stop and not accumulate. I might be wrong. I dressed Sulu in his lightweight shell jacket to keep the snow from getting him wet - he’s normally comfortable at this temperature (hovering around freezing), but he gets c...

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 letter E to letter H This journey began with a thrill: Google directed me to Route 3 to begin my walk! Route 3 is the last major route on the trek to Duxbury and the southern terminus of the BTC. Today is also the longest travel time I’ve had to a trailhead: nearly an hour.  Parking at the entrance to a drinking water treatment plant, Sulu and I headed back along the road to where we turned around last time. The day was cold (29 degrees F) and clear. Noteworthy on our walk were the large numbers of residential solar panels, and the second lawn jockey in East Bridgewater, only the third for the whole trail. We were back at the car in unde...

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 A to the purple asterisk Today we finished our tour of the Bridgewaters with a tour of East Bridgewater . We picked up the trail after the hiatus, parking at an electric substation. I’m not sure why the architects of the BCT chose this particular spot to restart the trail, to launch us on some not-scenic road walking, but here we are.   This scenic and convenient parking area As well as an extended test of the new phone battery, this is the maiden voyage of an exciting new amenity: my travel potty! In areas with a lot of road walking, or popular trails, there are not a lot of opportunities to crouch behind a shrubbery (and the shrubbery...