And then he watched me. I'm sure he thought I'd slip and cut myself, but I didn't. I asked him.
Homeless guys hate nosy questions, everybody knows that.
He didn't even ask me what I was up to, but I told him anyway. I wanted to see where the next section of the popular Los Gatos Creek Trail would pass. Upstream, in the tony town of Los Gatos, thousands of people jog, bike and walk along the paved and landscaped trail every day. The trail, after meandering through Campbell, stops cold in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. Where I stood, along the creek under Lincoln Avenue, there were no more yuppies in skintight spandex, no more skateboarders with buzz cuts.