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Another short walk to begin with but really short since we had to take Sarah to the bus station within the hour. So we only walked a total of 2 miles the first day then the last mile the second day. Yes we finished up yesterday. John got a promotion at his job and will be working night shifts...so I may walk walk by myself sometimes or not..depends. And this of course this will add another year or so on the schedule of completion.

John w/ Hair

This guy has been here forever

Dave joining us for the second day.

10th St bridge

I need one

Log

Walked near Liberty Rd today as we will save the long walk up in NE for Friday. Not much going on today, just chit chatting about jobs which John may accept a promotion and working on 2nd shift which will affect our walking schedules. So we will see...

Bowman Park

Rabbit

Dog and cat

Montery

Walked around Montery Golf Club today. Didnt realize that all the streets we just walked were pro golfer names like Trevino Cir, Palmer Dr, etc. The Golf club use to be Mountain View Country Club which the sign still stands as noted below.

Fore!

Relaxing on Old Mtn Rd

Montery Golf Club Sign

The old sign is right behind it

Nice

Going to finish up the NE area hopefully in the next 2 weeks. Started again on Old Mountain Rd and walked that plus Read Mountain Rd. At the end of Read Mtn Rd there was a trail. I wonder where that lead to? I may hike that one day soon. Read Mtn was the border of the County and City as we saw trash cans on one side that said County and the other side was the City. On the way back to the car we saw the storm clouds coming in. We ran for about a .5 mile and as soon as we got back it poured. Lucky us.

Old Mountain Road

Nice view from Read Mountain Rd.

Short walk around 2 miles today. Eve and Shane joined us. Shane even walked Eve for a bit. Dillard Rd was a long steeeep walk. And there was a road that was on my list, but it wasnt to be found. Just a closed gate w/ tons of overgrown grass and rubble.

Shane and Eve

Dillard Rd and Crew

The missing Road

Top of Dillard Rd

Coming back down

Saw my brother in law while I was waiting on John and Shane. Chatted for a bit. The weather started out really cool in this area (Old Mountain Rd) like it was going to rain but man it got hot! Walked towards the Read Mtn area and entered a really nice neighborhood. Saw some for sale signs and the homes were pretty cheap. Nothing major going on in this walk but we did see some firetrucks around one house but nothing came of it.

Looking towards Read Mtn.

Trevino Circle

Our parking spot

Nice walk today. About 4 miles in NW near Hanover area. Saw a lot of storm damage and about 4 roads were closed due to power lines being down. A ton of people were outside on their porches, decks and backyards either hanging w/ friends or playing music. Seems to me, in this area so far, people know how to relax and have a good time. John said he sold his Metroid merchandise!! Everything he had about Metoid is gone! He is no longer a Nintendo gamer or owner. Amazing.

11st NW

Nice sunny day

Melrose area

Storm damage

Hot day today especially if there is no shade and when there was it was a relief. Started at Firestone at Crossroads mall passed the new Steak n Shake (still crowded) and headed towards the airport. Shane, or as someone called him on the road "carrot top", joined us again. We walked Thirlane Rd. towards the airport and noticed the road simply morphed into a bike lane. Basically this road is useless for cars for about a 1/4 of a mile. On the way back to the car we passed a small Park which we didnt even know existed! Behold the winner so far for the smallest park in the city!

Looking down on Aviation Dr

The road just turns in to a bike lane?

The other end

New airport signage

Andrews Park. Smallest park in Roanoke city

Headed back down to Orange Ave area in NW today. Headed into Rugby neighborhood.  We received a lot of looks in the area. Most people taking second looks. Also saw about 4 cop cars patrolling the area and they were staring as well. Once the cops turned the corner most of the people went back to their "business".  Near the end of our walk we saw the awesome gargoyle statues that was guarding the Rugby neighborhood. They look like they belong to a Gothic church. Very neat!

Mercer Ave

Ahh..finally got a close up

Eureka Park

Our first steeeep climb in a while

One of two Gargoyles

A little cool today while walking. We decided to to walk a area off of Franklin Rd near the Shell gas station today since we are taking our dog, Eve. We came across the "crookedest street" so far, it definitely reminded me of Lombard St. in San Francisco. Pretty nice area and at one point a big pup came over and started playing w/ Eve. She had a nice time too.

View from the top

Eve licking water from the street. The water kept on coming. Leak??

Nice view from the street

What is that Eve?

The nice area/park that connects Bosworth and Peakwood St.



Bramble Ln. The crooked Street with 3 switchbacks





Coming back down towards Townside Shopping Center



KK and I met John over near Happy's flea market today and walked about 4 miles finishing up this one NE section. Only have a little bit more before completing NE entirely. Highlight of this walk was the nice little rest area w/ benches right off of Williamson rd.

Williamson Road Plaza

At the NE border

Another view of Williamson Rd

Hmmmm...

The little rest area

Alrighty, our first ever Friday walk (I think). Now we are back near Crossroads malls. Talking about the passing of Jeff Hanneman, who all of you know was the guitarist of SLAYER :) RIP. Nothing unusual to take pictures of today, but I had to take a pic of somthing.

Nice tree

Big Yardsale going on next week!