Looping the river
8/14 '14
There is a bike trail on both sides of the Schuylkill river. You can pedal from Spruce Street in Center City all the way to Falls Bridge, cross the bridge, and return on the West Philly side, terrorizing joggers and geese all the way. At no point are you terrorized by cars. It's a seven-mile trip.
And that's nothin'. You can keep going. The ride through Manayunk is a pain, but then there's the towpath trail. And a mile of gravel, after which you come to 20 miles of gorgeous paved trail to Norristown.
And on to Valley Forge.
And on to Reading. I haven't tried that bit.
Tonight I just needed to get my ya-ya's out. I've been in the house too much this week. So I did that seven-mile loop. And I did my best to notice how lovely it is.
I'd be all agog if I discovered it while visiting a city I don't live in. Human nature is funny that way.
I wasn't entirely successful in seeing it with new eyes, but I did remember to count the cormorants hanging out on the wire just behind the dam. (There were seven.)
"Yes, yes, but what's new on One Post Wonder today?"
The coolest thing is probably this post by Anne Galvin. (OK, that was yesterday.)
Oh, you meant new features? Got those too:
- When you click someone's name, and are taken to their personal blog, you'll always see a "plus" button you can click to follow them. Even if they haven't posted yet.
- When you visit the personal blog of a mutual friend, you'll see a new "Jane Doe's Friends" button. Click that to see a list of people that Jane is following. You can visit their blogs, or just follow them on the spot.
For you alpha testers, I'm probably the most profitable person to click on right now. For a lot of people this page won't have too many names on it... yet.
I do see that some of you are inviting a person or two. Feel free, and if you run out of invites, just give me a nudge.
Next up, I think, will be an easier way to discover new comments on your posts, and posts that you've commented on.
I'm seeing folks begin to invite friends and post interesting things. Yes! IT LIVES!
Harold and I don't get away together very much (also ridiculous because we are both teachers, but our vacation schedules are always one week out of synch) so I am trying to treat the North Fork of Long Island as a distant vacation paradise for the sake of having a little sanity during the school year.
We also have the Brooklyn Bridge park very close to our neighborhood and we had a pretty good Sunday "wow, all of this cool crap is right here?" excursion last weekend.
Maybe the answer is to repurpose old phone booths for personal use. Step in, adjust attitude, step out...oh LOOK!