Friday, January 20, Inauguration Day Refugee Rights March

I put on my Deport Racism T-shirt and walked to Judkins Park. We staged at St. Mary's Church, 611 20th Ave S. Then we walked to Jackson, through China Town, and along 4th Avenue to Westlake Park. At that point I walked home. I was tired and decided to conserve energy. I spoke briefly on the church steps, stating my name, where I lived, and that Trump had given a bad name to deportation. I said there was a type of deportation we could all get behind, and I showed them my Deport Racism shirt. They liked that. My 30 seconds of attention.

According to Map My Hike, I walked 4.36 miles to get from near the condo (Green Box)  to Judkins Park, which is the light green patch on the lower corner of the graphic on the left. St. Mary's is situated in that little jog that heads north to Jackson and then west through the International District. The end of the march is indicated by the Red Box, situated at Westlake Park. From Westlake I walked another 1.53 miles home, illustrated by the map below. This totals  That comes to 9.4 kilometers.

I left home at 12:30 p.m. and got back at about 4:30 p.m.

The hike from Westlake Park home.

Just ahead -- a right turn near the King Street Station toward downtown and Westlake Park

Total distance hiked so far for 2017: 39.1 km.