Microblog

Pedal seized up, replaced both pedals. If I replace any more parts I won’t be able to claim my bike is 30-years-old.

Paused at origami cranes, Peace Garden, near Lake Harriet, Minneapolis.

Worked today in a former nursing home. It certainly retains many of the elements of its original use.

Cycled to Japanese Garden, Como Park, St. Paul, then posted about St. Paul’s sister city.

Beautiful sunny day. Spent half the day inside, planning flights, hotels, cars and trains in warm places this winter.

Easy to cycle past this at Uptown Art Fair knowing I’d be at #victory44 for dinner where they care about ingredients.

Lunch with a friend who is moving to Atlanta. I’ll miss her, and our regular free-flowing conversations over decades.

Stopped to peek inside the Excelsior Streetcar Line shed on our cycle ride back from Victoria to Hopkins.

Lost all sense of time at Minneapolis Central Library.

Picked up my bike from a tune-up at Midtown Bike Center.

On my walk today: one final view of the Chicago skyline before heading to O’Hare.

Wrote about glass houses and buried museums.

Enjoying beer waiting for Chicago’s The Second City to start. Improv’s holy of holies. The beer will help me to ROFL.

Visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, self-described cornerstone of modern architecture. Nothing modest here.

Walked into architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s idea: the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois.

Bike to Midtown (where I left my bike for a service), bus, LRT to airport, got paid for voluntary bump to earlier flight to Chicago MDW, El to downtown.