Happy birthday, Top! I also had a great ride today with several friends: from Arlington to the Minuteman Rail Trail to Lexington and then noodling around back roads and dirt paths to the Minuteman National Historic Site, where it was all dirt paths, then to Concord Center. The group was going to do a great dirt trail from Concord to Bedford, but I had to head for home from there, which was in falling darkness on busy roads. I even got hit by a car in Watertown, but no serious harm to me or the bike. The weather was gorgeous; hard to believe it was mid Nov. in New England.

Neal