In July of 2006 my father called me to say that they'd put a barrier up in front
of the road that lead
to the local forest with a sign announcing that new houses were coming soon.
We'd spent a lot of time
together there while I was growing up and he wondered if I'd like to walk
through it one more time.
We spent a day there, walking the course of the three mile dirt road. A week
later he called
to say they were bulldozing it.