NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER, Continued
June, 2008
SOUTH WALES, NY
Once we were on top of the ridge, her spirits lightened considerably. This was, indeed, a lovely part of the ride: fairly flat, hard packed dirt trails or roads winding through occasional woods, along fields and in between two ponds, one of them good-sized. I was hoping that would cool her down, which it did. When we got to the downhill section of the trail, I got a surprise. Two of them, in fact.
We took a winding ATV trail that descended the west side of the ridge to the railroad tracks. Surely a former cart trail, I would guess it to be 150 years old, and I would believe it if a historian told me it was older. No doubt the settler farmers used it to haul things to and from the road that went north to Buffalo or south to
