I'm staying at a hotel North of Dallas and decided to take a look at the Google map to see if there was anyplace I.... I'm staying at a hotel North of Dallas and decided to take a look at the Google map to see if there was anyplace I could walk to. I noticed something called Legacy Town Center just on the other side of the George Bush Turnpike. The handy walk calculator suggested the distance was a little more than two miles. The weather was cooperating, so I decided to head out. The problem came a couple feet from the hotel door when I realized, contrary to the maps suggestion, there was no way to walk along the George Bush Turnpike the necessary distance to cross under it and off to Legacy Town Center.

None-the-less I persisted. I noticed a rail line that crossed under the freeway and so headed for it, all the way collecting a good deal of Texas mud on my shoes, so much it felt as if I was wearing exercise weights. Once on the other side of George Bush (ok, technically I did cross George Bush) I could either follow the tracks to a housing subdivision or follow the freeway to the cross street. I fugured there wouldn't be a way to go through the yards of the homes backing onto the tracks, so I tried following the highway. I was stopped by a drainage ditch and had no choice but to return. I imagine this place gets a walk score of zero.

A side note, the George Bush Turnpike is fully automated. Cameras record your license number and the owner of the vehicle is billed for passage.