Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Woods… and thanks to my husband, we took the correct one.

I know this is kind of redundant, but we ventured out to high banks metro park again. We kind of wanted to walk through the woods with all the fall leaves. We were just a little bit late in the season. About half of the trees turned red and yellow and then dropped all their leaves. About half stayed green. They will probably turn pretty soon, but we went when there were a lot of bear trees and green trees. There were still quite a few pretty yellow trees and a couple red ones. It was still absolutely beautiful. We walked about 2 miles through the woods, passing streams, squirrels, blue birds, cardinals, deer, meadows, and even an ancient Adena Native American burial mound. The pictures don’t do justice.

More of Benjamin’s mushroom pictures.

We started walking on one trail and switched over to a different trail so we could start heading back to our car more quickly. After a while is started getting a little dark and it started to rain a little, too. The trees covered us and we didn’t get wet at all. We came to a fork into the trail. One path would lead us away from the car. One would lead us back to the car. We had a map and there was also a little map on the trail. I walked right up to it, studied it for a bit and started walking down the trail. Benj stopped me and said, “Amy, which way leads us back to the car.” I pointed down the trail I was sure lead back. Benj said, “Amy, come look at the map again. Which road on the map goes left and which one goes right?” I pointed to the right ones on the map and Benj said, “And if your on the trail we are on, which one goes right and which ones goes left.” And I pointed and Benj said, “ So which one leads us back to the car.” I pointed to wrong one again. Benjamin just started laughing. He started walking down the correct trail and saying, “Just trust me.” I didn’t believe him the whole way straight back to the car. Thank goodness my husband has an amazing sense of direction, because I have awful awful awful sense of direction. I cannot read maps and I get really stressed about navigating. Thanks Benj for leading us down the right trail. I didn’t want to be stuck in the rain and dark.