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Category: Place
Urban Bike: City of Lakes
Today I’m off on my bicycle to visit every lake in Minneapolis, City of Lakes. It took some effort to draw up a list of 16 Minneapolis lakes, or, to be more precise, lakes and other notable bodies of water. The Minnesota DNR (Department of Natural Resources) defines a lake as follows: A lake…… Continue reading Urban Bike: City of Lakes
City Of Lakes
Posted Urban Bike, City of Lakes. My explorations of every lake in Minneapolis.
My Kagoshima: Getting Around the Region
Navigating Japan is not for the faint-hearted. Most overseas visitors arrive in Tokyo, only to enter a world of alphabets they cannot read, streets with non-consecutive house numbers, and train stations that are the world’s busiest. In my previous My Kagoshima posts: I emphasized the need to “chunk it.” Kagoshima Prefecture is a manageable chunk…… Continue reading My Kagoshima: Getting Around the Region
My Kagoshima: Getting Around the Region
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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
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.
A Field by the River Thames
An unassuming meadow on a sunny day in October 2014. I had gone out of my way to walk across this field. Earlier that day I had traveled to the town of Staines, a short distance from London’s Heathrow Airport. Next morning I would catch a flight to Athens, Greece, the cradle of democracy. After…… Continue reading A Field by the River Thames
A Field by the River Thames
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