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… Continue reading Urban Bike: Yard Art in a Civil Society
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Yard Art in a Civil Society
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In Search of Yard Art
Cycled in search of yard art. Found these giraffes in “Nordeast” Minneapolis.
Rust
Walked my bicycle through a rusty landscape. Rusty rails, rusty power poles, rusty vegetation.
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
Crossing Car-Free Bridges
Crossed 12 bridges I cannot cross by car.
Navigating an Air France Pilot
I navigated for an Air France pilot and his friend: easier to cycle with them to Lake Calhoun than give directions.
Train Tracks
Nordeast Minneapolis: Cycled above train tracks with a friend.
Tailraces
Cycled beside the Mississippi past early Minneapolis. Tailraces from flour mills used to drain into this canal.
Coffee in the North Loop
On my cycle ride, paused for coffee in the North Loop (Minneapolis Warehouse District).