As I looked for more places to hike as part of the Georgetown Running Club Summer Tour, I recalled a nearby park which I’d taken a few afternoon walks previously. Now I hadn’t known of a place called “Rattan Creek” until a couple years earlier when I discovered too late there was a 5k race held there. I thought what a bummer, as the park was nice and close to do a run, so I went and investigated it. And when I arrived I realized I’d been at this place before. Many, many times before.
About a decade earlier I actually lived a couple blocks from one
of secondary access points off the street called Marimba Trail. On the weekends I’d take Stoop over here,
enter via the access point, and walk the parameter keeping the fence next to
us. There was a street which intersected
part of the park (Tamayo Drive) which we’d cross, and continued to follow the
fence line. We did that every weekend
for a year, and I confess that I never paid much attention to the actual trail
which was there. And once I’d moved away
from the vicinity, I’d forgotten all about it.
So now it had become a “close by” place to go when I didn’t want
to walk around the neighborhood or to drive to a place where I could walk
unmolested by traffic.
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