Pooch Cafe' LbNA #56164

Pooch Café is a comic strip follows the humorous antics of a self-serving, squirrel-fearing, food-obsessed, toilet-drinking mutt named Poncho. The strip follows Poncho's life with fellow dogs Boomer, Hudson, Droolia (a female Bullmastiff with a drooling problem), Gus (a Scottish Terrier), Beaumont (or "Bobo", the owner of the titular cafe), Poo Poo (a Bichon Frise). The strip takes its name from the cafe where Poncho and his friends gather to compare notes about life among the humans.

Poncho and his friends are located on a blue trail that runs parallel the Housatonic Rail Trail. It is best to Start from Cutlers Farm Road parking lot; Take exit 49 off of Route 15 (Merritt Parkway) to Route 25 north. Where the divided highway ends, continue on Route 25 for 3 miles to the Village of Upper Stepney. Turn right onto Green Street, which then turns into Pepper Street and go 1 mile to a right hand turn onto Cutlers Farm Road. The parking lot is on your left down a gravel road.

The Housatonic Rail Bed originated in 1840 as the Berkshire Railroad linking Bridgeport and New Milford. It was later purchased by the Housatonic Railroad and later became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It was abandoned in 1962. Some maps refer to this trail as the Pequonnock Greenway, but signs on the trail call it the Housatonic Rail Trail.

Note: There is no ink in these boxes and only one logbook in the last one. Stamps are inside small pill vials.

Poncho: Start at the steel pillars going south across Cutler’s Farm Road. From the pillars go 30 paces to a trail on the left heading into the woods. Follow this to the top of a hill and there will be a 3 sister tree with a broken limb to its right. At the base of the limb is Poncho under.
Continue and past a dried stream bed (or not if it rained) till you come to a defined stone wall that the trail goes through. There is a rotting tree trunk resting on a rock of the wall to your left. Under this rock behind a front door is Hudson.
Continue past two blazed trees and up a stony hill till a large log on your right. At the trunk under bark is Droolia.
Continue and pass thru another stone wall until you come to a stone wall running with you on your right. At the break in the wall look to your right for a metal post with pieces of barb wire. Between its base and a specked rock is PooPoo.
Continue till you come to what once was a 2 sister tree but on sister decided o take a nap and fell across the trail. It’s been cut up for passage and to your right in front of the hollow and a large mossy boulder there is a flat rock that stabbed the sister. Next to this rock covered by bark is Boomer.
Continue and you will come to a “Y”. Keep left and start to go up a hill. Right before the first wooden railroad tie step, to the left is a massive tree that turns into a 2 sister. At the base in a hollow under some rocks is Gus.
Go back to the “Y” and take a left at the blue blazed tree down the trail keeping left to a bench on the rail trail. From the bench go right (north) 30 paces to a trail on the left. Pass the tree with an out stretched arm to the beginning of a stone wall on the left. Under a flat pancake mossy rock is the bartender Beaumont.
Just continue on the hard packed Housatonic Rail Trail back to the parking lot.