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[msandromeda]

I think the sidewalks in Seattle are really sad. When I'm walking, I imagine some long-ago city fathers laying out the streets, envisioning generations of citizens strolling down the sidewalks. Now they're all busted up, overgrown, and littered with clothes - jackets, sweatshirts, solitary shoes - as if some natural disaster had come and the

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[st_hibernus]

This is a wonderfully written, beautifully melancholic little vignette!

Very mono no aware... :)

[msandromeda]

thank you, my favorite melancholy finn!

[doublehelix]

At least there is you. But I'm sorry you have to go it alone.

it's one of the advantages for Portland vs. Seattle, I think. Bicycles are almost as common as cars in some parts of the city, and pedestrians are everwhere. It's kindof inspiring.

And I gotta say, I am really, really looking forward to Istanbul, where foot traffic and public transport are the easiest way to get around.

[doublehelix]

excellent idea! Though probably best pursued during weather more fair than what we're experiencing at the moment. heh.

Besides, it's always fun to take the train. (and many good photos train rides on your website, by the way! I especially like the one of the dark tracks winding off into the snowy hillside.)

[msandromeda]

...I found the Pland transit to be really efficient - once you figure out how it fucking works! I got SO lost there once, trying to decipher the hiroglyphs that pass for bus stop markers. Like one is 'purple rain' and looks like grapes. And one is a crab like creature, etc. My favorite was the 'brown beaver' line. I felt like I was looking for an Elizabethan brothel.

[doublehelix]

matter of fact, didn't Brazil try doing exactly that in the mid 20th century some time?

[msandromeda]

Thanks! I'm hoping to do the walk once a week, to start. It's a really good destresser for me.

Sign me up for your dream city. Paris? A medieval walled city in the Balkans??

[alitria]

This just made me remember how sick I was this summer for the first few weeks from all the being in the car and exhaust and fumes and noise and just the whole thing. Corey was witness to one unusually spectacular meltdown curtesey of I-5

[msandromeda]

I got the MOST exciting book today. And yes, Sunday, talking.

I really missed you during the flooding. We could have gone and looked at the falls at Snoqualmie! Wah!

[msandromeda]

Freakish!

AND I'm totally going to mail you some smoked salmon, cause I love you. Do you have a preference?

I'd mail you a cuban sandwich, but that would be yucky.