Secrets of the City

I guess that means the area is more of a backwater than I thought.

Yeah, it would probably help if we didn’t all run outside, crying “Look, an airplane!” every time one flies overhead. . .

That’s really cool. I didn’t realize there was such a huge area of dead air between us and basically Idaho. Seeing that, it must be a real pain in the ass to have to transfer here becuase of how out of the way we are.

Makes the case for that place in William Gibson’s book Neuromancer called BAMA — The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Annex.

Minnesota is so centrally located anyway… I’m sure all those people think we’re just that big waste of space in the middle of their leisure flights from Winnipeg to Des Moines, or Green Bay to Bismarck.

Yr preaching to the choir. I remember when I found that site a year ago. We control the horizontal and the vertical. Do not adjust you web browsers. Culture command center. Nice graphics. Creative capital of the world. I’m obviously drunk.

FlightAware.com has a bit clearer (but not as pretty) video of the same thing.

I dunno, when I used to fly from boston to LA and vice versa I didn’t go anywhere near minnesota usually.

Three hours due south to Cancun…….can’t beat it.

actually, it’s 4 hours….just did it last week. and I’m still regretting the decision to come back.

There’s a town just south of Cancun (halfway to Playa del Carmen) called Puerto Morelos that apparently has a whole bunch of people from the Twin Cities who have either moved there permanently or own property there and split their time. The folks who own Caffetto’s (22nd & Lyndale) have another location down there.

Been there, outstanding area, good investment now.

Where else can you go for a ‘different climate ‘ in just 3 hours.

It’s like there’s some kind of Minnesotan Underground Railroad.

If I could afford it, I would totally buy a condo or something down there. When I visited last February, my group rented a house from some lady that lives up here who just rents her house through half the year. Right across the street from that artist’s market.

Sitting in a hammock up in the palapa, feeling the breeze, listening to the ocean, having a nice cool cocktail. That’s the life.

I hate Minnesota sometimes.

I hate to ruin it, but Tulu’um has some of the Best Beaches Anywhere. White limestone sand and warm turquoise waters And the resorts are still relatively cheap and uncrowded…but I’m afraid that soon the entire coast will be Cancunized.

Tulum is great. Nice place to see some ruins. Relatively uncrowded. We spent a night in Tulum in a hut by the beach. Marvelous. Granted, that little complex was in a long row of huts and mini-resorts all along the beach.

Chichen Itza is the Disneyland of Mayan ruins.

I didn’t know that city people went on vacations to Mexico. Everyone I know who does that sort of thing is neighbors with DeRusha or sundry buds.

My neighbors vacation in the Turks and Caicos.