Along The Road

As you travel along the road on a bike you have time to observe things you might not see from a car as well as items that make you think. For instance, Wikipedia lists 49 pages of beer brands made in the US alone. So why is it that we have seen countless Bud Lite cans in the ditch, one regular Budweiser and only one Coors. A few Arizona Ice Tea, some EnSure (?) bottles and two Coke cans. The ditches in Maine were very clean, New Hampshire as well. Massachusetts are not as clean but not to bad.

9/30, a new beer can: Fosters. Also while stopped to take a rest, I noticed an empty airplane serving size Bushmills Irish whiskey bottle lying next to an empty whipped cream can. No signs of any coffee mugs, so who knows.

We have seen little gray squirrels every day in large numbers. Most alive but many who never made it across the road. The last few days we have seen lots little tiny chipmunks. On the Nashua River Trail two ran right in front of Rudy, one stopped and ran back between his wheels.

And of all things, we saw a beaver at the edge of the road on 9/27! There was a small stream and we had seen what appeared to be beaver activity and there he/she was!

We saw several what we called wood chucks in Pennsylvania. And I think I saw another beaver.

Update on road kill. We have seen 5 or so raccoons; 3 opossums; one Red Fox on the road in Valley Forge National Historical Site, one deer; a couple of black birds.

There have been lots of little black and tan caterpillars on the road trying to cross. The only one I know to have made it across the road for sure is the one I picked up and took across. I think he was so shocked he may have headed back across the road.