the walk....

Yesterday early evening...decided against a movie, decided to explore Brooklyn, Fort Greene, I had not been there in a while....took the B to DeKalb, got off, walked east on DeKalb into the Fort, once you get past the first three streets, which look lost in a time warp, small stores, undefined, downtown Brooklyn, the area opens up when you reach the park---Fort Greene looked beautiful, pristine in the early evening, everyone walking around, multi-racial, restaurants and bars pretty full---no sense that the gentrification of the past few years has brought any conflict--met Tracy outside of Tilly's, the coffee place I usually stop off at when I am there---good to see her---might hang out with her later in the month (or next month) still no appetite, amazing since I had not eaten for a few hours, then walked up Vanderbuilt, past Fulton, gee, the street between Lafayette and Green is long---no wonder all those small streets go off them as Clinton Hill moves into Bedford Stuyvesant---crossed Fulton, then Atlantic, then up Vanderbuilt to Prospect Place, checked out Soda Shop for Sara, but did not go in.
Finally stopped at the coffee place on Flatbush north of Prospect---did not want any coffee but had to pee....then where?....well, into Park Slope---down seventh, to Union, to fifth, looked at Union Hall, still no desire to go in----finally walked down fifth past all the bars to Commonwealth, on fifth and twelth, but did not go in. Still walking, I finally ended up at Barbes, finally got to see what it was like.....had a nice Stella Artois, bar pretty empty---then on to the F and out of Brooklyn, FInally! Stopped off to see Bob at 119, before returning home.
Still amazed at how far I walked, body feels strong today, like I needed it.
Still, just when one feels that one has seen everything, there is always the city itself, its blocks, houses, amazing transitions from one area to another, to fascinate.