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22 DAMASCUS, VA

Damascus Revisited

lose to eight years had passed since JD and I had been in
Damascus, Virginia. As a boy JD was a Boy Scout, and when
we moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, his troop often
C visited the area around Damascus. One of the last times
we were there, we had walked the
“We returned to Damascus Virginia Creeper Trail. Part of the
rails-to-trails program, the “Creep-
to remember our roots and er” stretches from Damascus up a

to look toward our future.” mountainside, so the trail can be
arduous and challenging. In typical
fashion, while other visitors took a
shuttle to the top of the mountain and biked or walked down the trail, JD
and I rode our bikes all the way up. Still, we had had a great time.
In the fall of 2002, both JD and I had succeeded in trashing our lives. It
was late September, and I was looking for a job. This wasn’t going well,
and to be honest, I wasn’t thrilled by the positions I was finding. One
morning, I asked JD if he wanted to go back to the Creeper with me. I

nyghtvision magazine volume 3, number 1, WINTER 2013