I like open spaces. And I love salt water.
Benjamin and I made our yearly trip to Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes, Delaware with only two intentions— to eat at the fantastic restaurants, and more importantly, to bike Gordon’s Pond Trail.
To ascend onto a boardwalk, that then takes you up among sand dunes is heaven for me. I feel like I’m gliding just above the sand, like I’m shifting along with it. I like thinking about how wind and water formed the dunes, and how dunes help to protect the land against storms. I love how clean the air smells. I inhale the scrub pines and the salt of the Atlantic. I love her deep drum beat. I like knowing that Europe is across her waves.
Open spaces take my worries, and I am grateful, grateful for the room inside my brain for clear, creative thoughts.
Gordon’s Pond Trail begins in the woods, proceeds onto the board walk over the dunes, and takes me into the middle of a salt marsh where there are thousands of birds—ospreys, gulls, sandpipers, herons. On this particular trip a flock of terns flew up and over us as we rode. Beautiful. I love having wings around me, birds sharing the open space…
