Unfamiliar Trails

Explored unfamiliar trails and, from afar, derelict industry. Mississippi barges can no longer reach this facility.

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Urban Bike: Yard Art in a Civil Society

I see things from my bicycle I don’t see from a bus or car. It might be an old guy on his bicycle, stovepipe hat, bushy beard, archaic black clothes, a character from a Dickens novel. Or a bearded guy cycling the Midtown Greenway in a girlie dress. They seek attention, or inhabit an alternate reality, or…… Continue reading Urban Bike: Yard Art in a Civil Society

One-Way Cycle

6:00 a.m. Target Field Station: boarded Northstar. Cycled back from Coon Rapids, following the Mississippi.

My New Bike

Drove my “new car” to Freewheel Bike then cycled home on my first new bicycle in over 30 years.

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Urban Bike: Car-Free Minneapolis Bridges

Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge.  Below me sixteen lanes of traffic roar. I’m standing on the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, one of many Minneapolis bridges I cannot cross in a car. The bridge takes me between two parks: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Loring Park. Loring Park. In Loring Park, the zig-zag approach to this old bridge tells…… Continue reading Urban Bike: Car-Free Minneapolis Bridges