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Nice thing about the storms is that it's been cooling off the area, so I went for a long overdue walk. 6th, Rogers, looking for some restaurant lyceum had recommended -- Green Bean, 4th and Rogers, didn't see it -- west on 3rd, or maybe 4th, then south, eventually onto 2nd, past Adams I guess, and right now I don't remember anything for a while. Not amnesia, just aimless walking. It was getting dark and I wasn't wearing my glasses so I didn't track many street signs, not that there were tons. I'm guessing I was as far as where 2nd turns into Bloomfield.
At some point I headed back, but was still in exploratory mode, so crossed 2nd? to head north on some road, which curved to the right... and maybe left again without my noticing? By shape and by the "Workforce Services" I remember, it seems to have been Landmark, but when it ran out I turned left, thinking I was going north, onto a dark and busy road with no sidewalk or even shoulder, just gravel.
It won't help that at this point Bloomfield/2nd was going NE, when I thought it was going E.
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Going further "ENE" -- actually simple NE -- would have been a disaster. No crossstreets until the Bypass, way past 17th -- probably what would be 23rd, if they kept numbering. (I live at 8th and Washington.) Going down Vernal would actually have been great, geometrically -- nice diagonal to Adams and "8th", dip down to 7th for an actual cross street, but straight walk home from there. Just didn't look at all safe from cars. Plus, foot, hurting. And going back to Domo meant going back west quite a ways, so walking down 3rd would have been a pain, if 3rd were safe, which it isn't.
Cab got me home in 8 minutes and $9.60. All hail.
Tangentially, that map isn't so bad, but when I look up a different address, it's covered in business indicator balloons, so many as to get in the way of the actual map. And I see no way to turn them off. Way to suck, Google Maps!
At some point I headed back, but was still in exploratory mode, so crossed 2nd? to head north on some road, which curved to the right... and maybe left again without my noticing? By shape and by the "Workforce Services" I remember, it seems to have been Landmark, but when it ran out I turned left, thinking I was going north, onto a dark and busy road with no sidewalk or even shoulder, just gravel.
It won't help that at this point Bloomfield/2nd was going NE, when I thought it was going E.
( Read more... )
Going further "ENE" -- actually simple NE -- would have been a disaster. No crossstreets until the Bypass, way past 17th -- probably what would be 23rd, if they kept numbering. (I live at 8th and Washington.) Going down Vernal would actually have been great, geometrically -- nice diagonal to Adams and "8th", dip down to 7th for an actual cross street, but straight walk home from there. Just didn't look at all safe from cars. Plus, foot, hurting. And going back to Domo meant going back west quite a ways, so walking down 3rd would have been a pain, if 3rd were safe, which it isn't.
Cab got me home in 8 minutes and $9.60. All hail.
Tangentially, that map isn't so bad, but when I look up a different address, it's covered in business indicator balloons, so many as to get in the way of the actual map. And I see no way to turn them off. Way to suck, Google Maps!
