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PG went on an open ended walk Tuesday. He does this a lot these days. Sometimes he has a destination, and a chore when he gets there. Other times, like today, he just packs the boots and camera, adjusts his clothes for the weather, and takes off.
When you go over the same paths over and over, you see the same things. When you bring a camera, you take pictures of the same things. Sometimes, you catch something that you missed, or a different light on a familiar object. PG finds the urge to digitally record less and less, the more he goes down these paths.
Today, he went on this trail, that comes out in back of Wal Mart. The glamor of Wally World was resisted, and PG went up to Peachtree Industrial. If we went northeast, he would get to I285 in a couple of miles. This does a pedestrian no good. If, on the other hand, he went south and west, he would go by Lenox Square, through Buckhead, and, if he was really athletic, into Midtown and Downtown. That is a very big if.
There were blue lights at the base of the wonderful bridge, along with a tow truck, and two recently altered vehicles. Traffic accidents can be so gruesome, but there was no ambulance here. This will not stop lawyers from getting involved.
The wonderful bridge goes from the former end of Clairmont Road, over Marta and Amtrak, and dumps vehicles onto Peachtree Industrial. Before the bridge opened in 1986, to get from Clairmont to Peachtree Industrial was a chore. You took a left at New Peachtree, crossed over the train tracks on a rickety bridge made of telephone poles, took another left on Peachtree Road, and cut through the parking lot of the Krystal. It is much easier to go over the bridge.
There was a line of cars on the bridge, waiting to get through the intersection. One opened a door, and said something to PG.
“We’re about to run out of gas, and we have to get to Cartersville”
“I’m poor”
“Thank you, G-d bless you, I love you sooooo much”.