October 27, 2007

  • Walk

    Sometimes you plan to bus-hop from restaurant to grocery store and back home, and some times you end up walking 10 miles because you don’t feel like waiting for the bus.

    And sometimes you end up walking 10 miles after night falls, some of it through a city park that’s in the bottom of a wooded ravine where you’ve never been before, glad that you changed the batteries in your flashlight before you left.

    The ravine part was before the full moon had risen. After it came up, though…. No need for a flashlight at all, to see. I still had it turned on, pointed at the ground, to signal cyclists. People were out on their bikes tonight.

    Except for the guy who was bringing his dog down to the trail to poop, I didn’t see anyone for the last third of the trail or so. Just me and my shadow.

    My shadow and me.

    I think I want to live at the southern end of the Ravenna slough, where Ravenna (the neighborhood) almost becomes UVillage (the neighborhood). Then I could walk past the soccer field and up through the reconstructed wetlands, and hanging out under the 20th Ave. bridge, which seems impossibly delicate.

    Follow that last link. Really. It’s Seattle in a nutshell.

Comments (4)

  • Glad you enjoyed your walk, even more glad you avoided stepping in the dog doo doo…

  • Sounds like an amazing walk.  I’ve walked a lot when in Manhattan and figuring I’d rather walk than wait around for a bus, but it’s a slightly different walk with different sights.  For one thing?  There’s just about always people.

  • :D it was a very cool moon last night, and got that illusion strongly of it being larger than usual when it was low near the horizon

  • Everybody should stick up for their neighborhoods. I’ve seen so many nice old residential areas destroyed over the years. Quality of life here is starting to suck.

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