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I like to explore cities. I like to feel the rush of their traffic, the way the people and things flow from place to place. How they feel about it, which neighborhoods are all business and which are filled with joy.
I know the Twin Cities really well and parts of Madison. I love to travel to Milwaukee because I get to look out onto an entire unexplored place. It has lovely architecture as well.
I walk through the city until I've felt the turns of its streets. I can't quite make it all the way around a city usually, but I learn to find my favorite spaces.
I like to find their strange corners and the new places in each one. Each city has many odd places. If I've found some, I'll visit them. At home I would go looking for the two story treehouse on my way back from the art supply store. In Madison, I have less of those places but one of them is Dobra tea.
I'd like to hear about where you live and what you like there. I'd like to hear about the places that you find magical. Recently I've been thinking about how I really don't know too many places that well and how I'd like to explore new ones. I know I like the Twin Cities. I know I like Madison. I know that, while I've not been there for very long at a time, I do like Portland. I'd like to visit more of New England. I haven't been to many places there.
So. Where do you live? Where have you been? What cities have you wandered through once, twice, a dozen times?
Fictional cities are a whole other realm. Reading books set in cities is enjoyable for these same reasons, for the joy of finding a new strange area along with the character.
Cities I know:
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Madison
Cities I've been to many times:
Santa Barbara, DC
Cities I've only been to once or twice:
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Paris, San Jose, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia, Duluth
Cities I'd like to explore:
Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston, Burlington, Montreal, Seattle, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Kathmandu, Santiago, Barcelona, Córdoba (in Argentina), New York and probably so many more. I'll add them as I think of them.
I know the Twin Cities really well and parts of Madison. I love to travel to Milwaukee because I get to look out onto an entire unexplored place. It has lovely architecture as well.
I walk through the city until I've felt the turns of its streets. I can't quite make it all the way around a city usually, but I learn to find my favorite spaces.
I like to find their strange corners and the new places in each one. Each city has many odd places. If I've found some, I'll visit them. At home I would go looking for the two story treehouse on my way back from the art supply store. In Madison, I have less of those places but one of them is Dobra tea.
I'd like to hear about where you live and what you like there. I'd like to hear about the places that you find magical. Recently I've been thinking about how I really don't know too many places that well and how I'd like to explore new ones. I know I like the Twin Cities. I know I like Madison. I know that, while I've not been there for very long at a time, I do like Portland. I'd like to visit more of New England. I haven't been to many places there.
So. Where do you live? Where have you been? What cities have you wandered through once, twice, a dozen times?
Fictional cities are a whole other realm. Reading books set in cities is enjoyable for these same reasons, for the joy of finding a new strange area along with the character.
Cities I know:
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Madison
Cities I've been to many times:
Santa Barbara, DC
Cities I've only been to once or twice:
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Paris, San Jose, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia, Duluth
Cities I'd like to explore:
Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston, Burlington, Montreal, Seattle, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Kathmandu, Santiago, Barcelona, Córdoba (in Argentina), New York and probably so many more. I'll add them as I think of them.
