I get the downtown renovation project (good!) has a bench every x feet requirement (also good!), but could you have thought a little more about placement. And maybe sat in them first
Current view is kinda nice because the idling garbage truck & F450 filling up, are gone
Another great view
Thing about back to road benches, besides being disconcerting cause traffic zooming right behind you, is you can’t see busses coming & most people using benches are waiting for busses.

Maybe @clmarohn can explain how this sorta thing ends up happening.

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5 Nov
My essay on walking twenty miles across Orlando.

Sixth in my Walking America series

intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-amer…
I have come to appreciate every city I have walked across, but Orlando has been the toughest.

The overall landscape of the city is brutal, and does its best to stamp out any community, soul, & beauty.

But it is still there. Because people need all of those.
Next piece in the Walking America series is Florence SC

Then who knows. Maybe Waterbury CT, maybe Bridgeport. Maybe Houston, Dallas, El Paso. So many towns, so little time.
Read 4 tweets
30 Oct
So begins my 17 miles across Orlando. In a McDonald’s with a homeless guy & fashionable Japanese tourist. Different place (grew up near here) then where else I walked so far. Less planned, more ad hock dealing with growth

If I make it will end up somewhere north of here tonight
Post coup, Official name is now Democratic People’s Republic of Chocolate
Man. I just wanna be kept dry & out of sun. Not part of some art project to pretend most of the area doesn’t have the feel of an airport grounds
Read 95 tweets
30 Oct
Had my Substack for a month, & so far got a lot of nice feedback

When i started it didn’t known where exactly I would take it, but now I do

I am going to focus on the walking America series & since I do more in these towns than just walk expand it from just short essays 1/
So in addition to a short essay about what I saw/thought walking across X, I will add some things like “best dive bar in X” & “best strip mall ethnic food in X”, best McDonald’s

My tastes are not about best food or best IPA, but about best vibe, “ambiance, & community 2/
I don’t want it to be a normal travel thing, but I am a traveler, so. It can’t be entirely not that

Also, I will be expanding to stuff outside of US, as COVID restrictions lesson. Like walking in Quito, Istanbul, & Bucharest. And hopefully eventually a long walking in Vietnam 3/
Read 6 tweets
29 Oct
Impress me Orlando strip mall Mexican
Ok. Place is legit good. If you ever around sea world or SE Orlando. Go to Taco Express
Best strip mall Mexican since El Paso. Only needs Draft beer.
Read 6 tweets
29 Oct
I wrote about walking through Breezewood. You know, that place the internet loves to hate.

intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-amer…
You know. This place
Anyways. Join my Substack, where I write about long walks though American cities.

It’s free. Which makes it a deal.
Read 4 tweets
28 Oct
Not sure you can begin a South Carolina walk with a more South Carolina-y scene (Palmetto tree sadly fallen & out of picture) Image
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Still smells of dank tobacco from dank blunts ImageImageImage
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