Five Star Trail

So when we were growing up, there was a set of railroad tracks at the bottom of the hill.  From there, we crossed a bridge over Jack’s Run (an unfortunately dirty creek!) to get to the bus stop. (where the hydrant is).  The railroad tracks were off limits for us – stay away, bad news, unsafe, hobos, TRAINS! 

Sometimes we did sneak away down there- we had a ‘club’ that we called the mysterious trestle club: kids doing what we shouldn’t do!  Now those tracks are the basic patch for the Five Star Trail, and is not only safe but we’re encouraged to go there!  I am standing on the trestle to take the picture.

There are even benches scattered along the trail at places. 

I decided I was tired of walking the neighborhood so I drove over to Buncher Park and walked a 2.3 mile loop.  It was hot, but a lot of the trail is shady.  I took a right on Shady Lane – the road we lived on when I was a young.

It’s a quaint little tree lined road, so much smaller than I remember!  It’s always that way.  And this is the house where I grew up – very much changed, at least in color and updates.

Cole’s pond was part of the charm, and although they are hard to distinguish, there are ducks swimming around.  We used to sit for hours on the fence post and watch the ducks, and think about what it would be like to OWN a pond!

It was nice to take a walk back memory lane.  I don’t know why I don’t do it more often!