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Quick Takes Nº 1
I have some thoughts and a lot of gripes, yet many of them don’t need their own post. Here are some of them.
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Washington Park
Washington Park is a normal community park in Richfield in the northwest corner of the Cedar/77 and 494 intersection. An old friend mentioned it as some place they were hoping to check out and I guess I beat them to it on an overcast day. My overall feeling was that there wasn’t any one particular…
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State Fair ’26
We did two trips to the MN State Fair this year. One with some friends and another with family.
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The True Size of…
When talking about our move to Japan I frequently fall short in explaining what the distances are like. How big is Kanazawa? How long does it take to get from Tokyo to Nanao? Are we going to visit Fukuoka every weekend, once a month, or once a year? How big? Here is a website that…
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Linden Hills Park
Linden Hills is a quirky neighborhood with a lot of amenities, but yesterday was the first time I had ever stopped at the community park there. Set a few blocks from the Linden Hills “town center”, the park stretches across a couple city blocks and packs a lot into the space. Four tennis courts, two…
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Luxton Park
Recently I was out on the bike and decided I had some time for a playground. Being a few miles from home I checked the map for parks nearby and headed to Luxton Park in the Prospect Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. I’m glad I did. Luxton Park play area is tucked away behind the park’s…
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Fuller Park
Often I associate St. Paul with sand playgrounds featuring community provided sand shovels, trucks, and other toys, but I recently headed to Fuller Park near Nicollet and 50th and discovered much the same in Minneapolis. Happily, it still has the classic Minneapolis staple, a wading pool and rec center. Fuller has Kompan play areas for…
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Urban Family Biking with Kidical Mass
Yesterday we stopped at Mattocks Park in Saint Paul with the kids between running a bank errand and heading to Lunds, and I’m glad we did because we ran into a bike assembly that I’ve long been curious about. A year ago I briefly had a conversation with some parent about biking around the cities,…