Off-road commuting to work, part 2

Now that I knew where my building is along the path, I could try finding an alternate route . . . and just a few hundred yards later, I found this private road, which is used by the local fire departments to access their training grounds!

I was sure they wouldn't mind me using it, so I wandered up to see how close I could get to the building . . . and as it turns out, aside from a small and easily-crossed drainage ditch filled with cattails, I was right next to the field outside our building! Someone else uses this already, with a distinct path already created -- so my commute can now be entirely off-road, and quite beautiful to boot.

Then there's the I-390 bridge over the Genesee & Erie Canal, as seen from our canoe in a previous posting, and then the Genesee & Wyoming railroad yard that lies a little ways behind our house.