Thread: Been a dedicated #bicycle commuter for years in Minnesota. This is how I prepare for -25F with wind chills around -50F...
Step 1: All merino base layer with light wool socks and silk liner gloves.
Step 2: All synthetic long underwear over the base layer with a wool/fleece blend liner glove over the silk pair.
Step 3: fleece quarter zip top with soft shell style cycling pants (with reflective piping on back).
Step 4: light windbreaker jacket, ski goggles, cold weather mittens, and thin merino wool scarf thingie. Hand and toe warmers plus beeswax on tip of nose and exposed cheeks.
Footwear: thin wool base layer sock followed by thick expedition weight sock, toe warmers and winter boots rated to -40. I was warm when I got home tonight (-42 windchill).
Enjoy the ride and be safe! 🚲
Forgot the footwear pic!
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Thread 1/6: By now you've probably seen that @WCCO photojournalist @Dymanh was attacked by this knucklehead Wednesday in Duluth, covering activity near a campaign rally for President Trump.
I was the one who assigned him to this story & he agreed without hesitation, as always.
2/6: He is my colleague and my friend. But, more that, he is one of the many @wccophotogs and reporters who put their health and safety at risk every day in order to tell stories which are important to the community.
But, his story is exceptional…
3/6: Dymanh was born in a Thai refugee camp, after his family fled their homeland of Cambodia in search of food and stability.
When he arrived in MN he endured bullying and racism, often getting suspended for fighting.
He endured, earned his citizenship & graduated college.
Valentina was my @PeaceCorps host mother in #Ukraine in 2007. She loved life and her family, and treated me like a son. Before I married Heidi I brought her to Valentina, as my parents were already gone. Valentina died Friday in Kamchatka, Russia at 82. I am heartbroken.
She left #Kozelets, Ukraine a few years ago after Andrey, the love of her life, passed away. The way the looked at each other and flirted, after 40 years together, brought me so much joy.
Recently she returned to her homeland of #Siberia, as if to see it one last time.
When I moved into their home I spoke little Russian & they spoke no English. It was a challenge but we quickly formed a bond.
She taught me how to cook, drink vodka, and which women were worth pursuing. But most importantly she loved me, an American she had no obligations to.
I just rode into @WCCO and saw looters inside Ruth's Chris Steak House and heard people talking about going for the safe. #minneapolisriots
In this image @MinneapolisPD are lighting up the crowd on Nicollet Mall advising them to disperse or they will be arrested for unlawful assembly. Hundreds of people remain on the streets. @WCCO
Here heavily armed @MinneapolisPD are guarding a Carinou/Bruegger's which had been damaged earlier during the unrest. @WCCO
Mile 0: 3 of my passions are (post) Soviet culture, cycling and hip-hop music. Today I intend to combine the three by riding my bicycle, while listening to hip-hop music, and traveling to various local sites related to Soviet/Russian culture. Follow along, won't you? #SovietMN
Mile 5: Booth Manor, Minneapolis. Nearly one-third of the residents in this @salarmynorth senior living facility speak Russian. Two of its residents are among the 37 Soviet WWII veterans who live in Minnesota, 75 years after the Великая Отечественная война ended. #RussiaInMN
Mile 11: The @MuseumRusArt is the only museum in the United States dedicated to Russian & Soviet art and culture. It is truly a gem, just of off 35W in South Minneapolis. #RussiaInMN
During Feb. I will be highlighting black Minnesotans, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Their contributions to our state & nation are too often overlooked.
In this 1958 @MNSpokesman image the Dominoes MC club prepares for a ride to Canada.
@MNSpokesman I-94 construction decimated the predominantly black Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul in the 50s & 60s. Sections had colorful names including Oatmeal Hill & Cornmeal Valley. Businesses such as the Credjafawn Co-Op and Booker T Cafe & Tavern were lost to history.
@MNSpokesman In the mid 1800's St. Paul schools were segregated and the 'colored school' was described as "in a very dilapidated condition." In 1869 the MN state legislature mandated that schools be desegregated. Sadly, a legacy of gaps in achievement remain today in MN.