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Today’s walk took me to the Saddle Club subdivision near Versailles Road and New Circle Road.  This seems like a newer version of the Lakeside neighborhood from Day 39, complete with a large loop.  Houses are clearly nice, with some architectural variety.

The overwhelming thing about this area was probably its proximity to the New Circle Road/Versailles interchange.  It was noisy, far noisier than yesterday’s walk in a residential neighborhood abutted by industrial uses and a rail line.  To top this off, New Circle Road is in the midst of a significant expansion project and the noise and asphalt odors were hard to avoid.

I got a kick out of signs in the Saddle Club area stating “No Overnight Street Parking.”  My experiences until relatively recently could not prepare me for this.  In some places, parking blocks from home is the price of having a car.  I’ve come to think of on-street parking as desirable and even chose my current neighborhood on the basis of the presence of on-street parked cars (though it turns in our case, it’s largely due to the presence of young drivers with their own cars–ah well).  It’s nice to remember that not only do some people have different priorities, in some cases they have completely different preferences as well.