Once we became aware of what we were looking for, we were seeing the blue blazes everywhere in northeast Ohio: on the road to Camp Hi, on the paths and road leading to church and many places in between.
Last week's adventure with Troop 403 logged a few more miles on this circuitous route around Ohio and while the trail felt our feet last year, we hadn't done anything serious since then.
So today we decided to log a few more miles on the trail, this time at the trail's northern terminus near Lake Erie. The trail starts (or ends) in the Headlands Beach State Park (Ohio) 
just north of Painesville on the west bank of the Grand River. So with our toes in Lake Erie, we started east and south toward Burton. Well, almost—we decided to avail ourselves of the picnic tables and have some lunch first.
The cottonwoods that make up much of the trees in this part of the park had already dropped most of their leaves and our feet made a loud rustling sound as we followed the blue blazes.
The trail isn't extremely well-marked at this point and we kept moving forward with a general idea of what we expected the trail to do until we caught up with the next blue blaze.
This took us out of the park toward the park entrance where we decided to continue west and back into the park toward the GC1QCEW geocache (which we found).
Heading north from there reconnected us to the Bedford section of the trail, coming in from the west. The trail is marked along the asphalt path that leads to the Northern Terminus but we chose to walk along the lake.
And pick up beach glass. And chase seagulls. And look out, as if to sea.
The weather wasn't too cold, it wasn't too windy and the sunshine was pretty steady. All-in-all, a very nice Sunday afternoon in late October. After all, it could have been snowing.
There were several other singles, couples and families out today as well. Many of them were collecting beach glass for jewelry, collections and, as one fellow put it, "it beats watching the Browns".
So all six of us got another 2.54 miles of hiking under our soles: most of it Buckeye Trail or parallel to it or very near to it.
Someday we want to sink our toes into the waters of the Ohio at the other end (start?) of the Buckeye Trail. 
There will be plenty of miles between now and then. And when we do, we'll take another picture and post it nearby. I wouldn't be surprised if all of us, were significantly older then.
And we'll just keep following the Blue Blazes.
