[today’s run: 3.2 miles]
My regular run from home is Watson Road, which is the next road to the east of us. I go north on our road, then east a bit to Watson, and south to near the end. Then I turn around and come back.
I have not been doing the last 100 yards or so since we moved back. The guy who lives there kind of made motions like he was claiming that bit of the end of the road. Then he seemed to go the other way. It may have had something to do with him owning the land at the end and then selling it to some other people.
But I got in the habit of turning around at his driveway. And that makes a good 5k out and back to that spot.
Watson goes kind of south east then curves back to the west. I can see our house during part of the journey. It is just across the field to the west.
Our friends the Flemings live on Watson Road. They own that field, and others. And we know a few of the other people enough to wave at. I think there are only 5 houses in total.
Both our road and Watson are dead end. Watson goes quite a bit farther south then we do. There is a waterway called Motley Slough that goes roughly northwest to southeast south of us. It starts over by Motley Middle School and 4-County Electric headquarters. Water flows to the southeast. Motley Slough goes into Gilmer Creek and that goes into Magowah Creek which flows into the Tombigbee river/waterway. I suppose the rain in my backyard probably makes it to Mobile Bay in about a week.
The next road that goes through toward the south, to the east of us is Old Macon Road, which is mostly gravel and follows the waterway. It comes out down near the pulp mill and near an intersection labeled Trinity that maybe used to be a town of some sort. The next bridge which crosses the waterway is at Pickensville, AL.
To cross the waterway north of us we would have to go west quite a distance, to at least Tibbee and then go north to MS-50 which comes out of West Point, MS and has a bridge that comes into the north end of Columbus. There’s a big wet no-man’s-land of fields and swamps around Tibbee Creek. Tibbee quite a bit more populated than Trinity, but there’s not much.
Motley Slough Bridge is west of us.
Between us and the waterway, going directly east, there are some hills and then a big area of river bottom land which has trees, fields, old gravel pits and some cabins on the river. The hills make our water drain southwards instead of going the shortest path to the river.
There is a house and a bit of farmland at the end of Watson Road. I don’t think anyone is living in it now. It would be a nice quiet place to live.