We did about 10 miles RT from Arlington Ctr to Lexington, from about 4:30 to 5:30 PM, a bit chilly, but I was even more impressed than ever with the Minuteman as an urban trail and rolling town common, as portayed by Rod as its "Poet and Photographer Laureate."

I was musing if there is a intimate geography with names for little features known to the cognoscenti, like the Egg Sculpture. I took note of a small clearing with a picnic table and swing set about a mile from the start. Then for example there were two distinct adjacent big boulders by a soccer field slightly further down the trail. These would I imagine be familar landmarks to the regulars.

I asked at the Visitors Center about a bathroom, and was impressed that we were directed to “Not Your Average Joe’s” Restaurant and they were accommodating. After our ride we had dinner there.

Speaking of landmarks, those were nice pictures of the urban landscape by mr. bill, and I could pretty much identify all the locales, unlike the pretty but otherwise featureless forested roads of the Cape, Metrowest, etc. I wondered where the "final climblet on the way home" was; looked suburban to me. I did recognize the Bedford end of the Minuteman with jimmuller.

We were skeptical when we first heard of it referred to as “The Garage,” but now go there weekly. It’s the only place in MetroBoston I know of for regular Saturday night (social) ballroom dancing. The musicians are excellent IMO, and they play dance music from the Big Band era through to the 70’s.