Getting To The Point

The north end of Tacoma ends in a sharp point of land that juts into Puget Sound. This tip of our city has been preserved as the well-loved Point Defiance Park. The blue skies today tempted me away from my orderly walk on Tacoma's streets to the roads and trails of this magnificent park.

As you can see, my 4-mile walk today (tracked by a GPS receiver) took me off road along forest trails, eventually out across the south border of the park onto Tacoma's northernmost residential streets, and finally back into the southeast corner of the park where I had left my car. (To be continued...)