I am currently on a road trip in Minnesota. First stop was Minneapolis, a vibrant, modern city 1/6 of which is composed of parks and other green spaces. The city planners way back when decided that each resident of the city should be no more than two blocks away from a park.

This one was taken at a park where Minnehaha Falls is.

Here are more pictures from the Minneapolis … and St. Paul trip. (While they are called Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul are quite different from each other – St. Paul has more historic buildings and is into preserving them … while Minneapolis is all about constructing modern architecture. That’s what I think anyway. Apparently residents of each city generally also don’t want to have anything to do with each other. I visited a friend who is living in Minneapolis – she herself has only been in St. Paul once. I find that odd actually. Or maybe not. I lived in a smaller twin cities arrangement before – Urbana and Champaign south of Chicago. Residents of both cities sort of feel the same way toward each other too.