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Buffalo Bayou Volksmarch
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Hickory Hollow BBQ was the walk start location. | ||
Start registration line on the back patio. |
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Volksmarchers who started at the same time we did. | ||
Crossing over the Jackson Hill Bridge. |
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View of Buffalo Bayou from the bridge. | ||
Carol and Ed coming over the bridge. |
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Lost Lake. | ||
Pedestrian bridge under Shepherd Drive. |
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View from the pedestrian bridge under Shepherd Street. | ||
Texas Redbud in bloom along the bayou. |
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Ed, Carol, Catherine and Etoupe. | ||
Ed and Carol on the trail. |
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Another view of the Houston skyline from the bayou. | ||
Detoured off the walk route onto the Green Tree Nature Trail. |
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Bridge on the nature trail. | ||
Kayakers on the bayou. |
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Two volksmarchers waiting for their friends to catch up. | ||
Statue at the end of the bridge, is one of seven. |
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Another one of them. | ||
![]() Carol took my picture near the "Tolerance" sculptures. |
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Ed, Carol and the Houston Skyline. | ||
"Listen" is one of several such signs along the trail. |
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Federal Reserve Bank. | ||
Eagle in front of the bank. |
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![]() Carol took my picture with "Spindle Piece". | ||
![]() Police Officer memorial. |
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![]() Climbing on the memorial. | ||
Carol at the fountain at the top of the memorial. |
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Looking down from the top of the memorial. | ||
![]() Carol took my picture at the top. |
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![]() Ed waiting patiently for us to quit climbing on the memorial. | ||
Skyline from the top of the memorial. |
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Agnes holding Chanel (volksmarching) Jim and Jerry working the checkpoint. | ||
![]() Carol took our picture under the canoe archway. |
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![]() Carol's picture of another redbud with the Houston skyline. | ||
![]() Ed and I with "Explore". |
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Trail continued under Memorial Drive. | ||
Bridges over the bayou. |
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Last view of the bayou and skyline and we turn toward the finish. | ||
Graffiti on the sign at the entrance to Spotts Park. |
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Overview of Spotts Park. | ||
![]() Carol on the trail in Spotts Park. |
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We caught up with Charliene and Bill. | ||
Decorations inside Hickory Hollow BBQ We stayed to eat lunch after the walk. |