My Neighborhood

I was out jogging yesterday afternoon and -- for the second time in a month -- was stopped by a passerby asking for directions. It felt kind of nice to be able to help out these people (one was a cab driver looking for the airport and yesterday a woman was looking for a building on campus--about a half mile away from campus). It's a little bit freaky to be jogging along (slowly, of course) with my headphones on and then get flagged down by an oncoming car, but it made me proud to be able to point these drivers in the right direction. It was also lucky that they asked me about places I knew around here because there are easily as many streets that are unknown to me as those that are familiar. That's why I am enjoying jogging around the neighborhood. It's helping me to learn about back routes and streets that I never would have driven down. For example, I found an old school the other day while mapping out a new route. It was all weeded over and closed, but it looked like it was a nice school back in the day.