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flaneursThis is a walk I did a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't get around to doing the writeup. For Theme III, I chose option (d): "First, choose the duration of your adventure; anything from five minutes to five hours. Start at your home or workplace. Take the first left, then the second right, then the first left, then the second right, etc, etc."
I started from the Mountain View public library at Franklin and Mercy in downtown Mountain View, California (two blocks from my workplace), and decided to walk for an hour, extending it for another hour if I was having fun.
The walk was almost entirely through quiet residential neighborhoods with really no features of interest except for the odd flower garden. I don't really find flowers all that interesting. Oh, and there was a kitty. I took some pictures, but haven't uploaded them, and truth be told, they're really boring. But I imagine what follows is pretty useless without a visual aid, so I made a google map.
left onto Mercy
right onto Shoreline
L California
R Palo Alto
L West Dana
Then I hit a dead-end at Pettis. I had only been walking for 16 minutes, so stopping would have been no fun. Instead, I made a quarter-turn counterclockwise and resumed the algorithm, walking down Pettis.
L Villa
R Permanente
L Higdon
Half an hour into it, hit another dead-end, a circular driveway. I turned around and went back the way I came, going the opposite direction on Villa.
R Chiquita
L California -- at the corner of California and Mariposa, I passed the first business I passed in forty minutes of walking, a convenience store. I got a guava paleta. It was 59 cents.
R Pettis
L Mercy
R Mountain View
L Latham
This passed by Eagle Park, the only public space on the route.
Latham took me directly back to my office, making a full circle without even trying. At this point it had been 58 minutes, so I declared victory. In conclusion, suburbia is boring as hell and I'm glad I don't have to live here more than two more months.
I think this challenge would have worked better someplace with longer blocks and/or that wasn't a completely residential neighborhood. But that was my mistake.
I started from the Mountain View public library at Franklin and Mercy in downtown Mountain View, California (two blocks from my workplace), and decided to walk for an hour, extending it for another hour if I was having fun.
The walk was almost entirely through quiet residential neighborhoods with really no features of interest except for the odd flower garden. I don't really find flowers all that interesting. Oh, and there was a kitty. I took some pictures, but haven't uploaded them, and truth be told, they're really boring. But I imagine what follows is pretty useless without a visual aid, so I made a google map.
left onto Mercy
right onto Shoreline
L California
R Palo Alto
L West Dana
Then I hit a dead-end at Pettis. I had only been walking for 16 minutes, so stopping would have been no fun. Instead, I made a quarter-turn counterclockwise and resumed the algorithm, walking down Pettis.
L Villa
R Permanente
L Higdon
Half an hour into it, hit another dead-end, a circular driveway. I turned around and went back the way I came, going the opposite direction on Villa.
R Chiquita
L California -- at the corner of California and Mariposa, I passed the first business I passed in forty minutes of walking, a convenience store. I got a guava paleta. It was 59 cents.
R Pettis
L Mercy
R Mountain View
L Latham
This passed by Eagle Park, the only public space on the route.
Latham took me directly back to my office, making a full circle without even trying. At this point it had been 58 minutes, so I declared victory. In conclusion, suburbia is boring as hell and I'm glad I don't have to live here more than two more months.
I think this challenge would have worked better someplace with longer blocks and/or that wasn't a completely residential neighborhood. But that was my mistake.
