Bungee Cords, Mobility Devices and Pink Tags: Or How I Found Adventure on a Boring Business Trip!
How to make a business trip more delightful: Bring a folding bike and pedal from the airport to the hotel on scenic off-street trails!
Category: Travel
How to Go to Milwaukee
Reflections on a short trip to the oldest and most iconic 10-pin alley yield lessons on transit, history, equity and infrastructure.
What It Is Like to Be a Warmshowers Host
Warmshowers is an organization that connects traveling cyclists with willing hosts using a website and app. Hosting fellow cyclists is a rewarding way to gain new friends, insights and experiences.
Winding Down, Bittersweet Beauty
A cyclist and outdoorsman reflects on the beginning of fall in the Twin Cities and beyond — and on the endings in life that fall brings.
More On the Robert Piram Trail Story
Wolfie Browender highlights some of the features and history of the Robert Piram Bike Trail with project manager Mary Norton.
Riding Across the City, Riding Across the Country
A day’s ride through St. Paul offers lessons on the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of cycling.
National Links: A New Metric for Traffic Safety
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]
Take it on Down to Highway 61: A Book Review
Nathan Johnson’s Highway 61 Through Minnesota is published by Arcadia Press in their Images of America series. The series has, according to their website, a whopping 8,223 titles. Just 69 of these are from Minnesota. It’s a proven format, almost certainly a commercial success, and yet I’m sad to report it doesn’t really work for […]
National Links: Joining the Zoning Club
Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. […]
Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train that Deserves Better
Amtrak’s Empire Builder, the only intercity rail service in Minnesota, will be reduced from daily to tri-weekly service beginning in October due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. I decided to take it one more time before the cuts went into effect, as there’s no way of knowing how long it’ll be before daily […]