Glow in the dark trail

Hello, Last night we went for a long walk on a glow in the dark trail that is in a town north of us. The trail is a bit more than two miles long, making it the longest in the USA.

There are better pictures on line. I suspect someone with more camera and more knowledge captured those images. As it said in one place it was like walking on the stars. It goes out in the country so there is little to no human made light on it. The stars were brilliant too. We do not often seem them outside the city. Leroy thought it would not get below the upper forties in Fahrenheit degrees. When we checked after we were done, we learned that it was 38 degrees which was quite cold enough for the light weight coats we and our friends were wearing. Cold moved into our bodies, but we still enjoyed the walk. To get back to our car we had to use GPS on Leroy’s phone since he had the address. That meant we had a lot of steps recorded by the time we were done, more than 8000 just for that walk. I had 18,098 steps for the day. When we drove to the address, we could not tell where the trail was as there was no glowing in the headlights. It was only when we got out and stood in the dark that those spots began to appear. Leroy had read that there were 30,000 spots in the trail. They take fifteen minutes soak in the sun and glow for 15 hours. How cool is that. It was almost strange to be walking along in the dark and see the trail stretch out ahead. I would recommend it as an interesting outdoor night time activity. Darkness comes early in the winter, but the summer would be warmer. Paula