A Return to Milton [Update]

[The Blimp Mystery may have been resolved. See Comments section at the end of the blog.]
We previously introduced you to Old Spanish Trail about a month ago. This time we got photos of the brick road, most of which is no longer in use but parallels US 90 for several miles in this area. Following this return trip to Milton, Florida, as we were leaving the town, Deb suggesting turning on to a side street where we might be able to approach the Eastern side of the Black Water River and to our surprise and delight we discovered a stretch of the old brick road that is still in use. It does not see a whole lot of traffic since there are very few dwellings in the area and only a small marina at the end of the road segment where there evidently was a bridge that is long since gone.

Before leaving Milton, we stopped again at the Veterans Memorial Plaza that sits on the West side of the river and we were again deeply moved by the experience, especially considering that Taps began to sound just as we were walking toward the plaza.

The photo below is just a very small portion of the bricks that surround and serve as walkways through the memorial. The bricks have names of contributors and/or memorials - thousands upon thousands of people who made contributions to the creation of the plaza. While it is not possible to read most of the inscriptions from the photo, it is quite impressive to stop and read some of these and realize the magnitude of the effort that it took to complete this memorial and the number of people that were involved.

Bricks of a Different Color:

To end our day, we were suprised to have a knock on the door of our RV. Roger, one of our neighbors, had spotted a blimp flying West above the tree line following what appeared to be the direcetion of US 90, just to the North of us. While seeing a blimp is not anything particularly unusual, I'm sure this is the first time I had ever seen one flying at night (other than on TV), all lighted up. It seemed to have a name in lights on the side, but it was a bit too distant to tell if it was Goodyear or something else.