A walk through Durham
Today I went for a walk through our neighborhood.
Last week when I went to the supermarket after work, I locked myself out of the car at the parking lot. I had forgotten that I had put my keys in shopping a bag, so I closed the trunk with a satisfying "bang" sound and realized right away that I wouldn't be able to get into the car.
It was a beautiful afternoon so I decided to walk home. And so I did, and I realized how rare it had become for me to walk from the supermarket to home. When we lived in Arlington we didn't have a car, so we would do all our grocery shopping on foot. Not always convenient but at least we would walk and see the neighborhood.
So today I went for a walk again, to explore the area. A few months ago I had seen an interesting stone formation not to far from our house, and I thought that perhaps it's a monument or something historical, so I decided to walk to there.
Almost immediately after I left our apartment complex, the sidewalk stopped. There was no other way than to walk on the grass.
LaSalle, the street I was walking on, crosses a highway.
After a while there was a sidewalk again, now at the other side of the road.
Coca Cola distributor on Hillsborough Road. There are so few people walking, that I noticed I got suspicious about the people who were: "what that guy doing there? Why is he walking and not by car?".
An old saloon in Texas style. Though closed (and for sale), the cactus plants are still growing.
A Mexican store, Don Jose, on Hillsborough Road.
My end point was this set of these stones. Not a monument or something historical, as I had thought...
...but the start of a small park around a water filtering plant.
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Re: A walk through Durham
So your curiosity got satisfied, and you had a healty walk because of it. :-)
Isn't it dangerous, walking where there are no sidewalks? Because those cars aren't used to a pedestrian....
Re: A walk through Durham
Yes, it was a nice walk. I didn't feel that traffic was dangerous -- where there's no sidewalk I would just walk on the grass next to the road.
Re: A walk through Durham, koninginnedag
Hallo America, it is a day of joy, drink a 'oranjebitter' for today is Koninginnedag.
Het ware geheim van de Oranjebitter
Re: A walk through Durham, koninginnedag
Ha, Happy Koninginnedag!
That's a nice article about oranjebitter. The article has an interesting link to http://www.distilleren.tk/ -- a page in Dutch about home-distillation ("moonshining"). Illegal, even in the Netherlands :)
Re: A walk through Durham
Nice to see some pictures of your neighborhood.
Seems it was very early, looking at the cars on the highway?
Re: A walk through Durham
The highway is the 147, the Durham Freeway, which is quite heavy on traffic on weekdays. It was Sunday around noon when I took this picture.
But....
But.... the story isn't finished, is it...?
Re: But....
Yeah, exactly...
What happened to the rottening produce in the trunk of your car???
Re: But....
I'm afraid there's no spectacular story about rotting produce, sorry ;)
When I came home I picked up my key and went back to the parking lot to pick up the car, about 1,5 hours later than planned.
Re: A walk through Durham
Nice walk! the weather was very nice as fas as i can see.
Ik like the cactus!!
Petra van Dijk