August 25, 2021 20.8 Miles St. Anthony Park I’d never thought of St. Anthony Park as being unusually hilly. That is, until this ride. About halfway through it dawned on […]
Remnants of Stonebridge
May 20, 2016 Macalester-Groveland, Desnoyer Park 10 Miles Stonebridge. Today, it’s little more than a two block long street in Macalester-Groveland. From the 1910s into the early ‘30s, however, Stonebridge […]
The Diminutive and the Colossal
July 11, 2015 12.05 miles Highland Park, Summit-University (Summit Hill) The small house movement caught on in the late 1990s. It’s easy to understand, with the dramatic rise […]
On the Way to Jail
June 16, 2015 – Highland Park, West End/West 7th, Downtown – 16.2 miles It was fabulous to be back on my bike. First, it had been almost two months since […]
The End of the Line
May 4, 2014 9.8 miles Macalester-Groveland, Union Park (Merriam Park, Midway) Snelling Avenue is one of Saint Paul’s best known, most diverse and busiest streets. Snelling is slightly more than […]
The Marshall Plan
Summit-University, Ramsey Hill, Cathedral Hill August 17, 2013 13.7 miles Marshall Avenue from Chatsworth eastward is one of the most mottled thoroughfares I’ve ridden in terms of age, […]
U and U
August 4, 2013 Desnoyer Park, Summit-University, Como Park 19.4 Miles I spent a good deal of the ride today either on the U or near the U. I’m referring to […]
Opening Day 2013! (part 2)
April 27, 2013 20.33 miles It was after 1 o’clock, I’d been riding for more than two and a-half hours and I felt my blood sugar dropping. I had no […]
Opening Day 2013! (part 1)
April 27, 2013 Part 1 of 2 20.3 miles total There are very few days when nearly everyone I see while riding is visibly happy, just excited about the day. […]