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PG met Uzi behind the waffle house, and Uzi drove. The plan was to go walking in Piedmont Park. PG was bored with the park, but glad to get out of the house and do something.

After parking the car, PG had an idea…Why not go in through the park expansion? PG had been exploring this territory during the beltline walks, and it seemed like a simple matter to come into the park through the parking garage.
The old railroad tracks, with the old ties piled up every fifty feet or so, was muddy, but easy to tread on. The bridge over Clear creek holds up, and the old railway was easy to pass by until the driveway to the garage was reached. At this point, there was a fence, blocking further access to the railbed. There was a gravel trail, which you reached after walking over a muddy field. The trail led to the creek, and a dilemma.
How to get to the other side of the creek? And where do you go once you get there?
About fifty yards away from the bridge ( which was on the other side of a fence), there was some water control thing in the creek. If you walk, carefully, down a steep concrete slope, there are big rocks in the creek that you can walk across. The next step is to step over a silt fence, climb a hill, and walk on the gravel construction road.
The construction road goes under the granite bridge, and then ends. The challenge at this point is how to make it up to the open park. There is a refuse covered hill, with another silt fence at the top. PG and Uzi climbed up the hill, stepped, carefully, over the silt fence, only to see another fence. The second fence was made of metal, and was too high to climb over.
Walking behind the fence, PG saw a gate. Maybe if one person held the gate up, the other could crawl under it. The fence on the gate had sharp points on the bottom, which discourages crawling underneath.
This being a construction zone, PG found a porto potty, and decided to use it. This was a bit silly, since he was in the woods, in a place where he was not supposed to be. After PG finished, Uzi decided this was a good idea. While Uzi was in the house, a man appeared at the other side of the gate. He wore a uniform, that said park conservancy.
” How did you get back there?”
” The back way”
“Did you know it was a construction zone?”
“Uh huh”.
Uzi heard this, and decided maybe he should stay in the can. He came out, and the man in the uniform twisted the dials on the lock, and opened the gate.
“Don’t do this again”.
PG walked in front of the fence for another hundred yards or so. There was a point where, maybe, you could have climbed over a silt fence behind it, and then, maybe, climbed over a silt fence to freedom. This was by the bridge over the doggie park. The park was not boring anymore.