Klingle Road is a small street in Washington, D.C., just near Macomb Street where I lived in 2012–13. By now, it has been already repaired and transformed into a walking root, but eight years ago it was out of use and even closed to motor traffic. The cause was that the main part of the road lies in a ravine, so that it used to be flooded by water and mud from the slopes after every heavy rain. At the same time there are no houses at Klingle Road itself, all the nearest buildings look to other streets. If I hadn’t been shown this street at the beginning of my stay in Washington, I would probably haven’t even noticed it at all. The street is not too long, surrounded by nice and comfortable residential areas. Its eastern end leads to Washington Zoo. To see such a ‘secret’ small area of desolation at the heart of a big city was especially surprising.
