DAY 29 — Monday, Sep 25, 2023
A gorgeous day with sunshine until the very end when gusts of wind picked up. Today’s 12.5 mi was mainly on Route 17 and the last 3.5 mi on Point Pleasant Road, both lightly traveled country highways. The landscape alternated between agricultural fields with a predominance of still unharvested soybean fields, forested lands, and river estuary flows out to sea.
I usually stop at cemeteries along the way, one juxtaposition of haves and have-nots especially catching my eye—what a stark difference between a simple wooden cross and an oversized monument! (The deceased with the wooden cross died 12 years ago at the age of 61.
