Getting back to posting after a blog break. I’ve been working a lot and, on the weekends, playing baseball, and we’ve been house hunting, then moving, then doing house stuff.
Last weekend, we took a break from the house stuff to ride on the Eastern Trail. We parked at Kennebunk Elementary School and rode north to the trail’s on-road transition in Biddeford. It was a smooth, ~11-mile roundtrip ride through Kennebunk, Arundel, and Biddeford. Photos below.
Efforts to extend the Eastern Trail on each end, led by the Eastern Trail Alliance (ETA), are as blazing hot as the temps are out there now. There’s a lot of positive energy. In addition to the Close the Gap (Scarborough-South Portland, inching closer to construction) and Over the River (Biddeford-Saco, feasibility study underway) campaigns, there is a lot of support for moving forward with the design of the Blazing the Trail South segment (Kennebunk-South Berwick, feasibility study underway). Finally, ETA just amplified the vision of the Casco Bay Trail Alliance for a shared use path network “connecting 13 cities and towns from Portland to Lewiston-Auburn and Brunswick. Some day, once you reach the end of the ET, you’ll be able to keep going northwest to Sebago Lake, keep going downeast along the coast (past existing Portland trails and through Brunswick), or head to points north like Lewiston and Augusta — mostly off the road!
Photos from our ET ride last weekend:
Jeff Brubaker 