Neal Smith Trail – Day Two Adventure

Just wrapped up a 24-mile bike ride 🚴‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️ on the Neal Smith Trail—this time heading in the opposite direction from yesterday. Good news: no biking casualties to report today… unless you count Beth getting her bike pedal stuck on a bench 😂 (don’t ask …Don is still shaking his head).

We made a pit stop at a butterfly garden 🦋—beautiful spot, but the butterflies must’ve been on vacation. Don spotted one (he’s still talking about it like it was a rare bird sighting 🧐). Meanwhile, as Beth was heading back to her bike, she found a lost sole 👟. (Andrea and Cody… wish we still had that site up and running! 😂🤣😂)

We’re just amazed by this whole recreation area 🏕️—it’s campground after campground, all nicely maintained with tons to do. There are paved trails for biking 🚴, spots to swim 🏊‍♀️ and fish 🎣, and even mountain biking trails 🚵‍♂️… though after last night’s downpour 🌧️, they were more like a mud run. One poor guy came out of a trail looking like a swamp creature—flat tire, mud-caked bike, the works 😬.

The paved trails are rolling, mostly shady 🌳, and perfect for riding. Wildlife sightings included a turkey 🦃, deer 🦌, squirrel 🐿️, bunny 🐇, and a hawk 🦅 (Don swears it had a mouse—or maybe a small burrito—in its talons). 🤪Read more