NATURE HUMOR

It’s Only an Adventure if You Survive

Another near-death experience in the wilderness.

This isn’t where we were, but I like this picture. (Photo by the author)

“Wilderness” might be a stretch since it’s Northeast Ohio and my idea of wilderness is being unable to find a Starbucks.

But you’d think that one of the first things they’d put in a new park is a map. A big, unmistakable map so idiots like me don’t go traipsing off into the woods with their elderly dog and zero sense of direction.

I actually have a compass on my smart watch, but I’m not clear how knowing which way I’m pointing even helps.

I’m not a sea captain. I’m not navigating by the stars over here.

I know the parking lot is over there on my right somewhere and I’m standing in the middle of an impenetrable field that the county decided to turn into a “park”.

And by “park”, I mean they mowed a path through somebody’s back 40 and then threw down some logs in the woods to suggest that maybe this is a trail? Or maybe it’s just a fallen log? *Shrug*

But Hershey wanted to explore what I’m calling “Bunny Land”, a trail we’d never been on before and for which, as mentioned, there was no map.