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Sutter / Rockaway Ave / Chester / Bristol

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Yes, I've fallen months behind again. Sorry for the lack of updates as school began in September once again. Continuing down the L line seemed to be the way to go. At least, it did back in May. I still hadn't realized how long traveling on the L line actually took! Before we start: here's a little birdie. What's so special about the birdie? Well, I was walking to work about about seven in the morning, and it literally fell out of tree in front of me. It just missed me by inches (maybe 12-20 inches, but inches). At first, I thought it was dead. Then it's head popped up. I didn't have any gloves or anything that I could use to move it, and I was wasn't going to touch it otherwise. With my luck, it'd peck my hand and fly away and then what? And just in case the person looking over your shoulder is as clueless or brainless as someone on social media was, No, I am not poking the bird with a stick. That's the bird's ta...
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Weirfeld St / Boyland / Herkimer St

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This was an interesting walk because I had already walked a big chunk in the middle of it, the part that connected two places I hadn't been before. One of the problems with the Bushwick streets was that they didn't all feed directly into a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, either N-S or E-W, so I skipped a few. And then mistakes were made when retracing my steps. Weirfeld St was the last of these skipped streets, but once I got to Broadway (a short walk), I had no place to go, and the train ride home from there would've been long. On the other hand, the A train wasn't that far away. This gave me the opportunity to walk some of these one-block streets that connect Herkimer and Atlantic Avenue. To be honest, one of the reasons that I haven't walked either one of those streets yet was because I hadn't figured out how to divide up those streets. How can I minimize walking back and forth? I didn't want any three-mile walk turning into five miles or more. ... ...
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