The Route.
1. Bicycle.
· Time started: about 7:30am by the North Ave. exit on Oakleaf.
· I keep getting hit in the face with flies on the Oakleaf Trail.
· There are a lot of plastic bags in the trees.
· Squirrels!
· I can still hear what I think are trees creaking around the exit by Altera on the Lake.
· Slight detour – I’m not about to attempt to drag my bike up the hill; I go down to the Brady Street exit and backtrack to St. Johns.
· Not too many people out on a Sunday morning.
· Prospect is easier to cross than it was on Thursday evening.
· The rest goes by fairly quickly. My back/neck hurt, for some reason.
2. Walk - Burdened.
· Took my view camera and tripod on this one – starting about 2:45pm from North/Oakland.
· Stopped for a snack at Sils. Overcharged by a dollar = free bag of chips.
· I only have a few holders, and it’s hot (got to be in the 80’s, according to weather.com) and the trip isn’t necessarily the subject that I want to use the film for. I did stop to make one exposure at my St. John’s hill exit. I get a few looks at this point from the higher pedestrian/bicyclist traffic at this time.
· My backpack keeps getting caught on trees up the hill. The tripod isn’t helping. It doesn't seem as heavy when it's only carried a short distance. I still feel like a weirdo once I emerge from the brush behind St. Johns.
· I was spending so much time looking about that I forgot my cig had burnt down – ouch.
· No violinist at Hamilton/Pulaski at the moment. Boo.
· I find that I am paying more attention to the people around me than I was on the bike. More time to contemplate them rather than avoid (hitting/being hit by) them.
· I catch the 15 route at Brady and Van Buren/Holton heading south. I leave the unopened bag of chips for someone to find.
3. Car – Passenger.
· City transportation is out due to my route; luckily my friend was available shortly. Time: about 6:30 from Holton/Brady.
· Country music is not my favorite. Air conditioning, however, is.
· Being in a car makes the trip seem like nothing, even less so than on a bike. Taking pictures of people is easier though, the car being a buffer and all.
· Remember the small bit of graffiti in the parking lot. Reserved>Deserved. We get stuck behind another car idling in the lot...unkind words are spoken.
· The trip ends prematurely: my friend has to get to work, and we cannot follow the route anymore anyways after the lot(one ways going the wrong way).
***Of note: Pictures are from the initial trip and trip 3. I took analog cameras on the other two runs; I’ll try to remember to post some of those once I get them processed/scanned. =)
The End.
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