Well, not a real road-trip, but yesterday was another trip up to visit mom. And because life has been somewhat stressful, I took the long way home. As I was driving along, I saw a sign for “Star-Tech Const. Inc.” and read it as “static const int”. I’m pretty sure that was a sign that getting away from the computer for a while had been a good idea.
It was a pleasant drive. I drove through rural Wisconsin, and along the St. Croix Valley between Taylor’s Falls and Stillwater before getting on the major highways and heading home. It was a fairly relaxing drive for most of the way. Yes, I was being a Sunday Driver.
So today, the links are mostly about travelling around a bit. Seemed like the right thing to do.
- Here in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Transit fare hikes will be on the table, as well as service cutbacks. See, Metro Transit is facing revenue shortfalls because people haven’t gotten back on the buses after last year’s strike, so the clear solution is to jack up the ticket prices and run fewer buses. That’ll help bring ridership right up! [press-patch]
- Going flying? This Great Circle Mapper can give you an idea of where your plane might be going. Of course it’s not completely accurate, since flights deal with winds, restricted airspace, and similar things but it can give you a rough idea of what you might be flying over without going to the expense of getting FAA sectional charts. [metafilter]
- I didn’t know (or had forgotten — I have the nagging feeling I’ve linked to this before) the Minnesota Historical Society maintained a list of Minnesota Roadside Architecture, but now that I’ve found it, I see that they’re asking for pictures of things they don’t already have pictures of, and they’re missing a couple I remember from various road-trips (there’s a voyageur in Pine City, and the big snowman in North St. Paul, for example). I guess I need to remember to take my camera out with me and make some submissions next time I go for a drive like that. Roadside America has more, and may be what I remember linking to, but I’d like to see the MHS have a good Minnesota-specific site. [metafilter]