Out of Bounds

On Monday I spent most of the day with Naomi Adiv, a friend who attends UC-Davis. She just began her final project for her Masters - walking the capital corridor rail line. We spent most of the afternoon walking from Jack London Square Station to Emeryville Station. The walk was challenging in the sun and pushed my limits in an interesting set of ways. Upon my urging we did not stay with the tracks in most of the Port of Oakland where we truly would have been in no man's land.

Our meander through West Oakland was enlightening since I had never ventured much beyond I-580. Who knew there was a trapeze school, the terminus of the transcontinental railroad, past the Mandela Gateway TOD project, through a neat neighborhood park, and up past Blue Star Corner, and the back of the the great Emeryville agglomeration of Ikea and Bay Street.