we pointed our wheels north along Corn Neck Road, pumping up and down the hilly landscape until the North Light came into view. The road ends at Settlers Rock, a stone memorial Vibram Five Fingers sale erected in 1911 in commemoration of the landing 250 years earlier of the first European settlers on Block Island.From Settlers Rock, the North Light is about a half-mile hike along Cow Cove, a rocky beach with signs that warn against swimming because of the dangerous currents. At Sandy Point, the northernmost tip of the island, the North Light is open for tours during the summer, but sinceVibram Five Fingers Bikila we visited at the end of tourist season, we could only peek in the windows of the sturdy building that has stood at the site since 1867.After emptying our sneakers of a good quantity of sand, my companion and I decided to eschew our Vibram Five Fingers KSO Grey-Camo Shoesshoes and take a barefoot hike back to our bikes. Since 43 percent of the island is preserved as open space, we were bookended by expansive views of the Atlantic on one side and the Block Island National Wildlife Refuge on the other, which to us merely appeared as dunes covered in scrubby green growth. The hike became a moving meditation that underscored the island's Vibram Five Fingers Sprint Pure Red Shoes serene vibe. Labyrinth, then lunchOnce back on the bikes, we retraced our path down Corn Neck Road and happened to spot a semi-hidden sign that pique our curiosity. It read "LABYRINTH" and was set on a few wooden steps. We stopped and realized we stood at a geocaching site. Geocaching, for the uninitiated, is a sort of high-tech hide-and-seek in which participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or other navigational tool to discover hidden containers, or caches.
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