tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12047062269814089402024-02-06T21:41:45.793-08:00KEN & ROBERTA AVIDOR'S TRAVELBLOGSketching, painting, journaling from the Union Depot and beyond…Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-56310193728752531142022-10-03T17:01:00.001-07:002022-10-03T17:01:38.961-07:00Amtrak Trip to Glennwood Springs, Colorado<p> Roberta and I took our first post-lockdown trip on Amtrak last week to Glenwood Springs, Colorado. We took our Brompton folding bikes on the Cardinal from Indianapolis to Chicago and the incredibly scenic Zephyr from Chicago to Glennwood Springs. As usual, we sketched in our journals during the trip. We enjoyed hiking and biking. We visited <a href="https://www.glenwoodcaverns.com/" target="_blank">Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park</a> which we enjoyed. Lots of great places to eat. We soaked in the<a href="https://visitglenwood.com/things-to-do/glenwood-hot-springs/" target="_blank"> hot springs.</a> We biked and sketched. Here’s some sketches from our journals starting with Roberta’s watercolors:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOM0OdPSeBGdwYkIr_eAvPw9dL4qrmcLigc0QY5xHZjxU_XqcD3nWchX9P20s91MifkXjWp6_2tZeWym_2DQezt-icWOUOdKp0_FUvuaT4mE8xx1cOUYl4d5mcVy4XtGibK0RBpzGWTEwYvRL86xa1Zygo7j8n9pdKqpmlZWERS4LAWToM-eYyxQBMA/s3025/940D07AE-0C95-4DF8-AED8-4AD5DE26CD72.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1785" data-original-width="3025" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOM0OdPSeBGdwYkIr_eAvPw9dL4qrmcLigc0QY5xHZjxU_XqcD3nWchX9P20s91MifkXjWp6_2tZeWym_2DQezt-icWOUOdKp0_FUvuaT4mE8xx1cOUYl4d5mcVy4XtGibK0RBpzGWTEwYvRL86xa1Zygo7j8n9pdKqpmlZWERS4LAWToM-eYyxQBMA/s320/940D07AE-0C95-4DF8-AED8-4AD5DE26CD72.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ8U42ODDnBeVl7GbGsfTlPFdCOAToX9vOpJKNidJUmWL8jOgNM0o8eDZNUW_eb1VlhQ1pO25XzqL0DI8yQldOpXrAKPY7HBy7GKFGKmZdf256i-T0sPkEjiyJ39h_MYvIZ_f_tdiH-1ND7FwY8Ynd-P4K6OKyb2rrpnThuD3qHoCOHKeR1eMMZSjEMA/s2859/24464B8C-C879-425B-994E-F4552F8FCDB4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Last week, Roberta and I rode the Amtrak Hoosier State for the last time. The Hoosier State connected Indianapolis and Chicago. Chicago is a rail hub, which Roberta and I use frequently to travel and sketch nationwide with our Brompton folding bikes. <a href="http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/06/30-indiana-town-says-goodbye-to-hoosier-state--and-to-trains-as-a-daily-travel-option">This vital rail link is no more. </a> But, I don't want to complain about our inconvenience. Roberta and I will find alternatives. However, there is a group of people, a people with no online voice for which this cancellation is a far greater inconvenience, the Amish.</div>
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Friday night, while riding the Hoosier State, I spoke with some Amish passengers. They asked me why the Indiana Legislature cancelled the Hoosier State. The Amish have religious restrictions regarding computers, email and social media where public debate happens these days so, I feel obligated to relay their concerns. I want readers to know how Governor Holcomb and the Indiana Legislature acted to restrict the religious freedom of fellow citizens by canceling passenger rail service to and from Chicago to Indianapolis. </div>
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Many Amtrak passengers are Amish. Orthodox Amish have
religious restrictions about transportation technology. They do not drive or
fly on planes. Passenger trains are a vital service for them. Cutting the
Hoosier State while spending lavishly on highways and airports is a restriction
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The Amish have a Constitutional right to practice their
religion in a way that does not impinge on the rights of others. Most non-Amish
people like Roberta and I can choose to fly in an airplane or drive a car and not violate their
religious beliefs. Protection of the rights of religious minorities is why we
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The annual cost in the Indiana budget to maintain the
Hoosier State was $3 million. That’s peanuts. The entire budget approved by the
Indiana Legislature and Governor Holcomb was upwards of $30 billion (and the
Amish pay taxes too).</div>
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$3 million a year is a small price to pay to safeguard the
religious freedom of our fellow citizens. Governor Holcomb needs to restore
funding for the Hoosier State. Failure to do so is religious intolerance
bordering on persecution. </div>
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This is an issue that bridges the rural/urban divide. This
is an important matter for Indianapolis residents like my wife and I who are car-free,
but also rural people who travel to Indianapolis for the train.</div>
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On our last trip on the Hoosier State I sketched (after asking permission) these Amish young women singing hymns in German and English. It was one of those incredibly beautiful, convivial, spontaneous experiences that happen frequently on passenger trains. If you live in Indiana, please contact Governor Holcomb and your state representative about this matter. Thank you.</div>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-60128357238799289422018-10-03T16:47:00.000-07:002018-10-03T16:47:15.747-07:00Sketches of the Awesome Crews of Amtrak <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I ride Amtrak, I like sketching the scenery outside and my fellow passengers. I sometimes sketch the awesome, hard-working Amtrak crews. Some of the sketches are in my journals, which I keep. I have also sketched in spiral-bound sketchbooks and even paper table coverings, which the crew members get to keep. When I give away a sketch, I usually take a photo for my social media. Here's some photos of Amtrak crew members and their sketches.<br />
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<br />Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-47202673889292894182018-09-27T12:53:00.001-07:002018-09-27T12:53:53.245-07:00Amtrak Trip to California and BackRoberta and I too a big Amtrak trip to California this month. We took the Hoosier State from Indianapolis to Chicago, the Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles, the Coast Starlight to San Jose, the Capitol Corridor to Emeryville, the California Zephyr to Chicago and the Hoosier State back home to Indiana. We travelled over 5,550 miles by train through some of the most scenic parts of America. Here's some of our sketches:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the desert landscape on the Southwest Chief.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plains and mountains of Colorado <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">on the Southwest Chief.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta painted the farms outside Salinas on the Coast Starlight.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I sketched the stunning scenery in Nevada on the California Zephyr.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta painted the towering cliffs in the Rockies <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">on the California Zephyr.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At dinner, I sketched some of my fellow passengers.</td></tr>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-91900160702463917132017-06-12T09:49:00.000-07:002017-12-20T09:34:42.519-08:00Bicycling & Sketching in Chicago and IndianapolisRoberta and I took our folding bikes on Amtrak's Empire Builder to Indianapolis with a short stop in Chicago. We love these two cities and look forward to returning for more bicycling and sketching.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Bean" by Roberta.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buckingham Fountain by Roberta</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Surgery Museum from my journal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">General Logan, my sketch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Station & Indy, from my journal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Station, sketch by Roberta</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amtrak conductor, sketch by me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soldiers & Sailors Monument, sketch by me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lion, Indy War Memorial, sketch by me</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canal Walk, sketch by Roberta</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White River Park trail, sketch by Roberta</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta & I biking the Indy Cultural Trail</td></tr>
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<b>UPDATE: </b>Roberta and I were so impressed with Indianapolis, <a href="http://indyculturaltrail.org/2017/10/30/tales-from-the-trail-ken-roberta-avidor/">we moved there! </a>Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-16528610577954166632017-04-04T11:08:00.003-07:002017-04-04T13:51:35.058-07:00Sketching in Cuba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Roberta and I just returned from a sketching trip to Cuba. Cuba is a beautiful island with a proud, heroic history and architecture of many styles spanning centuries. The Cuban people were very friendly and showed a lot of interest in our sketches.<br />
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Havana and Viñales are wonderful places to sketch. We brought our Brompton folding bikes with us and the Bromptons were very handy for getting us around the narrow streets of the old city. Cuba is still emerging from the "Special Period". Many buildings in Havana are in dire need of repair and some have collapsed. The good news is a lot of those buildings are being repaired. If you are considering a sketching trip to Cuba we suggest getting the assistance of an travel expert. We recommend <a href="http://cubaproductionservices.com/">Cuba Production Services</a>. For more sketches of Cuba, check out Urban Sketcher Jim Richard's wonderful <a href="http://www.jamesrichardssketchbook.com/2015/07/exploring-central-havana-on-foot.html">Cuba sketches on his blog.</a><br />
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The following are a sample of our Cuba sketches. Click on the images to make them larger. We will post more sketches on Instagram (@avidorart & @robertaavidor )<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horses tethered to a banyan tree in Viñales (Ken).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The musicians at a Cabaña, a good restaurant (Ken).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The statue of José Marti in the Parque Central <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Ken).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's music everywhere in Havana. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motorized cannon in front of the Museo de la Revolución (Ken)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our favorite musician in one of our favorite paladars (Roberta).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">José Marti in Parque Central (<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Roberta).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of annoying exhaust comes out of these old Russian cars <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Roberta).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A street scene in Habana Vieja <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Roberta).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another street scene in Habana Vieja <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Roberta).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lovely, serene Viñales valley <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Roberta).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us in front of the "Granma" depicted by Cuban artist José Fuster.</td></tr>
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<br />Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-73758434309197568392016-09-21T09:18:00.000-07:002016-09-22T15:12:39.437-07:00We Took Our Full-Sized Bicycles on AmtrakIn our previous car-free. multi-modal trips on Jefferson Lines and Amtrak, Roberta and I have taken our Brompton folding bikes which are treated as luggage. Some of our friends have asked us about bringing full-sized bikes on buses and trains. Sadly, the rules are not as easy for full-sized bikes, but that is starting to change.<br />
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Roberta and I had an opportunity to try out the <a href="http://blog.amtrak.com/2015/11/amtrak-expands-bike-service/">new bike service</a> on <a href="https://www.amtrak.com/empire-builder-train">Amtrak's Empire Builder</a> on Monday. The cycling advocates, dignitaries were on hand at Union Depot to launch the new service (<a href="http://www.startribune.com/amtrak-announces-easier-bike-storage-for-cyclists-traveling-by-train/393986671/">Star Tribune article here</a>).<br />
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Roberta and I have full-sized bikes we use to get around the Twin Cities. Roberta has a stylish Linus bike she got from the Calhoun Cycles, now <a href="https://www.perennialcycle.com/">Perennial Cycles</a> in Minneapolis, and I have a bike built by <a href="http://www.lowertownbikeshop.com/">Lowertown Bike Shop</a>, now located here in Union Depot. It felt really different to wheel our full-sized bikes through Union Depot to the Amtrak platform. We lifted our bikes up to the baggage at the front of the train and walked back to our car. near the back of the train. The train waits a long time at the MSP stop, so we had plenty of time.<br />
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We got off at Red Wing, one of our favorite Amtrak destinations. The platform at Red Wing is not long enough to allow passengers to walk from their car to the baggage car. That may change (there are a lot of improvements in the works for Amtrak service in the Midwest).<br />
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For now, if you are planning to take your full-sized bike on the train, it's a good idea to call Amtrak and make sure they have that service at your destination. <a href="https://www.amtrak.com/bring-your-bicycle-onboard">Be sure to read Amtrak's bike policies.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Dignitaries and bicyclists in the waiting room at Union Depot.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cyclists put their bikes on the baggage cars on the UD platform. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One last photo and the journey begins!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice, new bike infra on Red Wing's waterfront.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta and her bike on the Cannon Valley Trail.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's quick sketch of Barn Bluff in her journal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My journal sketch of Barn Bluff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and the spectacular view atop Barn Bluff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mocking on the Mississippi.</td></tr>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-40895921299786704992016-08-16T19:22:00.006-07:002016-08-16T19:33:56.862-07:00Duluth by Bus & BromptonWe haven't been traveling much in Minnesota this year because we've had to do a lot of family-related travel to NYC and LA. Robert and I are also deep into non-sketching, non-travel projects. Roberta has a new painting studio in the Northern Building and she hopes to be ready to show her recent work at the<a href="http://www.saintpaulartcrawl.org/"> Saint Paul Art Crawl this Fall</a>. I'm finishing the second book of<a href="http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/"> Bicyclopolis.</a> But, we did manage last month to take a Jefferson Lines bus up to Duluth for four days. We had a lot of fun bicycling and sketching in Canal Park and elsewhere.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canal Park by Roberta.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of me and the rocks. The water had turned brown from flooding.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canal Park attraction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More rocks by me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite sketch.</td></tr>
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<br />I snapped this photo of my Brompton on the shores of Lake Superior:<div>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-68154513207686087292016-02-14T10:00:00.000-08:002016-02-14T10:12:12.501-08:00Trip Out West, California & NevadaEvery year about the time Winter tightens its icy grip on Minnesota, Roberta and I visit family living in warmer climes. This year, we boarded a jet plane with our Brompton bikes packed wrapped safely with <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/roberta-makes-garment-bags-for-our.html">Roberta's garment bags</a> inside Brompton "B" bags. We prefer traveling by bus and train, but we didn't have enough time to schedule a leisurely excursion on <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/sketching-all-way-to-los-angeles-on.html">Amtrak's Southwest Chief as I did in 2014.</a><br />
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Our first stop was San Clemente where we did the following sketches on and around the San Clemente Pier. As always, click on the sketches to make them bigger:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's awesome sketch of the town around the station & pier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another sketch by Roberta of the view of the ocean from the station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketches in my journal from the pier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awesome coffee and breakfast at La Gallette Creperie.</td></tr>
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After a few days, we took the Metrolink Los Angeles. We took a bike trip to Venice via the Metro "Expo" line and the Ballona Creek Trail. I did this sketch on the train of another bicyclist sitting next to his bike:<br />
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We took a Greyhound bus from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Greyhound has excellent service between the two cities. The cafeteria in the Los Angeles Greyhound station had really tasty Mexican food.<br />
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Vegas isn't a great town to bike in, so our daughter chauffeured us around. Fremont is a good place to walk with lots of fun places to sketch outdoors, but the weather was cold and windy. We found a nice coffee shop, <a href="http://www.thebeatlv.com/">The Beat </a>on Fremont with big windows where we did these sketches:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denizens of The Beat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page from my journal.</td></tr>
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The next day was warmer, so we drove to Red Rock Canyon a really great place to hike and sketch:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of people taking photos of each other.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's awesome sketch of Red Rock.</td></tr>
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Our vacation came to an end and as we boarded our plane at the airport, we glimpsed (and sketched) an occurrence that reminded us of the saying "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas":<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the intestinal discomfort of one overindulgent visitor at the departure gate.</td></tr>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-61595320530648984482015-08-04T14:20:00.000-07:002015-08-04T14:23:07.369-07:00 Bicycling the Paul Bunyan Trail From Bemidji to Brainerd (Part Two).<div class="p1">
<a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/bicycling-paul-bunyan-trail-from.html">In the last post</a>, I wrote about our trip up North via <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/">Jefferson Lines</a>, our adventures in Bemidji and our trip down the Paul Bunyan Trail on our <a href="http://www.brompton.com/">Brompton</a> folding bicycles.</div>
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Wednesday we woke up at <a href="http://embracingpines.com/">Embracing Pines B&B </a>to the sound of a soft wind whistling in the tall pines. We had a wonderful breakfast while watching the hummingbirds flit about outside the windows:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The breakfast at Embracing Pines B&B.</td></tr>
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After breakfast, Roberta finished up the watercolor she started Tuesday:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta painting on the deck.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's finished sketch.</td></tr>
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We packed up our Bromptons and bicycled seven miles downhill with a strong tailwind to Walker. The Paul Bunyan Trail links up with the <a href="http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_trails/heartland/index.html">Heartland Trail</a> a few miles north of Walker. There's a trail that runs down into Walker from the combined Heartland and Paul Bunyan trails, but be careful not to miss it. The signage on the Paul Bunyan trail is sparse and we found it easy to get confused (next time we're taking a GPS device). </div>
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The view from the city dock on Leech Lake was gorgeous with blue skies and puffy, white clouds. Leech Lake is big lake ringed with deep green hills. However, the wind was blowing hard at 14 MPH with gusts up to 36 MPH, so there were very few boats on the lake. It was very difficult to sketch in the wind. Roberta did this quick sketch between wind gusts:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A windy day in Walker - Roberta Avidor</td></tr>
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We were interviewed by Jackson Brunner, a reporter for Lakeland Public Television. <a href="http://www.lptv.org/artistic-duos-journey-continues/">You can watch his report at the IPTV website</a>. While I was sketching on the dock, my wide-brimmed Tilley hat blew away. It wasn't that much of a problem since I brought along my Jefferson Lines hat which I wore for the rest of the trip.</div>
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After our interview, we biked south along the shore of Leech Lake to our next destination, Hackensack, 13.5 miles south of Walker. We decided not to pedal north back to the Heartland/Paul Bunyan Trail. If we had continued on the Heartland/Paul Bunyan Trail, we would have added 17 more miles to our trip including a hilly stretch of the trail dubbed "The Pyrenees" by some bicyclists we met on the trail. We were already running behind schedule, so we chose to bike on the Shingobee Connection Trail. To get to the Shingobee Connection Trail from Walker, we first had to pedal on the shoulder of Highway 371, which was not a lot of fun. We had gotten used to bicycling mile after mile in idyllic woods, prairie and farmland, so it was a letdown to bike alongside noisy cars and trucks. Fortunately, that stretch of the trail was short and we were soon back in the woods with only the sound of wind in the trees and insects buzzing around our heads. A few hours later we were in Hackensack.</div>
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Hackensack is a cute town, known mainly for its giant statue of <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/3148">Lucette, Paul Bunyan's legendary sweetheart.</a> Hackensack is also, according to legend, the birthplace of Paul Bunyan Junior. Hackensack has a nice park with a great view of Birch Lake. We stayed at the <a href="http://www.owlsnestmotel.com/">Owls Nest Motel</a>, a classic, northwoods, log cabin exterior, knotty pine interior motel. The pre-head on their sign says "We Give a Hoot". </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the Owl's Nest Motel.</td></tr>
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We were pretty hungry, so we walked next door to the <a href="http://www.birchwoodcharhouseandbar.com/">Birchwood Char House & Bar</a>. I ate their award-winning Birchwood Char burger which really was an awesome burger ("home smoked pulled pork, home made Pigs-n-Chicks BBQ sauce, and home made creamy coleslaw."). Roberta had the mushroom-Swiss which she said could also have won an award. Roberta sketched the award:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta sketched the burger trophy in her journal.</td></tr>
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After fortifying ourselves with burgers and beer, we were prepared to sketch the Birchwood's popular Karaoke Night:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of Karaoke Night.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">sketch of Karaoke Night.</span></td></tr>
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Thursday, we biked our longest stretch of the Paul Bunyan trail, 32.5 miles to Nisswa. Before we left, I sketched the iconic statues of Lucette and Paul Bunyan Junior. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of Lucette.</td></tr>
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Roberta sketched the big white pine behind the motel with an owl in it:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the pine tree behind Owl's Nest Motel.</td></tr>
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We pedaled steadily through more scenic woods and fields until we came to Backus, where we bought burgers from Willard's Saloon & Eatery and ate them in a picnic shelter next to the trail. We met a family that was having a cycling reunion on the trail. Aside from this group, we saw only a few bicyclist on this section of the Paul Bunyan Trail. We continued on to Pine River where we stopped to fill our tires with air at a rest stop along the trail. We also biked into town for an ice tea. We continued on to Pequot Lakes where we stopped for ice coffee at Lakes Latte and cooled off for an hour. I sketched the Pequot Lakes "Bobber Water Tower":</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I sketched the Pequot Lakes water tower in my journal.</td></tr>
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We pedaled the remaining 9.5 miles to Nisswa, a charming tourist town bustling with people. Nisswa is in the heart of the Paul Bunyan-land lakes, cabin and resort region. We had dinner at Big Axe Brewing and turned in early at the <a href="http://www.exploreminnesota.com/places-to-stay/1412/nisswa-motel/?classifids=169">Nisswa Motel,</a> a nice place to stay that's only a block from the trail:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the Nisswa Motel.</td></tr>
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The next morning we had a big breakfast at the very busy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adirondack-Coffee/62999323956">Adirondack Coffee</a>. I saw several bicyclists drop into the Adirondack for coffee (they made a special blend to honor of the opening of the Paul Bunyan Trail). The Adirondack also has amazing scones:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An amazing scone at the Adirondack.</td></tr>
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The Adirondack has a nice, shady outdoor area which I sketched:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the patio in front of the Adirondack in Nisswa.</td></tr>
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After lunch, we were back on the trail on the final 16.7 miles to our next destination, <a href="http://www.whiteleycreek.com/">Whiteley Creek Homestead and Bed & Breakfast </a>in Brainerd. The trail was mostly downhill from Nisswa passing through woods and alongside lakes:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta takes in the scenery while pedaling her Brompton.</td></tr>
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We began seeing more and more damage from the recent windstorm south of Merrifield toward Brainerd. A lot of trees were blown over on both sides of the trail, but this is the only one we saw blocking on the trail:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only downed tree we encountered blocking the trail.</td></tr>
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We left the trail at Beaver Dam Road and pedaled on the shoulder to Riverside Drive to 4th Street in Brainerd. We bought some foodstuffs from the <a href="http://www.crowwingcoop.com/">Crow Wing Co-op </a>on Washington Street (Highway 210). We biked the rest of the way along the highway, about 3 miles to the B&B. We turned off from the highway onto Whiteley Creek Trail, an unpaved road leading to the B&B. We were greeted by a flock of friendly chickens. A short time later we met our hosts Dick and Adrienne who gave us a tour of the picturesque homestead with its many antique cars and curios. Roberta and I hiked a short trail overlooking a valley. In the remaining daylight, I began a sketch of an old truck in front of a caboose. Roberta did a study of the chickens. We stayed in a comfortable, rustic cabin with many windows looking east into the woods.</div>
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Saturday morning, we sipped coffee in front of a fireplace on the veranda of Whitley Creek. A splendid breakfast was served and we met the other guests. Adrienne told a story about the recent windstorm and how her garden's scarecrow, a repurposed plastic Santa, barely survived the falling trees. I knew I had to sketch the brave, resolute scarecrow after breakfast, and I did:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Head and hand damaged, but still standing.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, Roberta sketched the chickens:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the chickens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta and her models.</td></tr>
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There was so much stuff to sketch at Whitely Creek and we hope to return in the near future. After noon, we packed up and pedaled back into Brainerd to catch the Jefferson Lines bus back to Minneapolis. I was sitting across the aisle from a passenger with a service dog which I sketched (good practice for sketching at the "Paws on Grand" event the next day). Our bus had wifi, so I was able to post this sketch:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A service dog on a Jeffferson Lines bus.</td></tr>
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We're back in our loft in Saint Paul's Union Depot and thinking of more multi-modal journeys. We want to thank all our partners and especially <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/">Jefferson Lines</a> who made it possible for us to have a fun-filled road trip without setting foot once inside an automobile.</div>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-47369613102173200942015-08-03T13:28:00.002-07:002015-08-04T14:58:27.694-07:00 Bicycling the Paul Bunyan Trail From Bemidji to Brainerd (Part One)<div class="p1">
Last Sunday, Roberta and I took a week off to bike the <a href="http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/">Paul Bunyan Trail</a> from Bemidji to Brainerd, Minnesota. Once again, we chose to travel car-free by <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/">Jefferson Lines</a> bus and Brompton folding bikes. Unlike our other multi-modal excursions, this was the first time we were dropped off in one location and picked up in another. Previously, Roberta and I explored cities like <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/sketching-city-of-pipestone-minnesota.html">Pipestone</a> and <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-sketching-trip-to-sioux-falls-south.html">Sioux Falls</a> by bike, but stayed within bicycling range of the bus depot. This trip was a test to see if we could bike nearly 100 miles from one bus stop to another.</div>
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We packed up our bikes with our art supplies, clothes and other travel essentials and rode the Green Line LRT to Minneapolis and biked down First Avenue to the bus depot where we caught the 11:35am Jefferson Lines bus to Bemidji. As usual, our Jefferson Lines bus was clean and comfortable with plenty of leg room. Our bus driver, Clark was pleasant and informative about the towns we drove through on our way up to Bemidji. Some of these places we would bike through on our way back.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of our bus driver.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">sketch of our bus driver.</span></td></tr>
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We arrived at our stop at Bemidji State University on time and unfolded our Bromptons and rode three and a half miles south to Country Inn & Suites hotel where we would spend two nights. <a href="http://www.countryinns.com/bemidji-hotel-mn-56601/usabemn?facilitatorId=GOOGLE&ref=/hotels/usameta&s_cid=se.ggl.cis_cmp30&gclid=CjwKEAjwovytBRCdxtyKqfL5nUISJACaugG1a0zt3_dB2-PKW45DLyXVF7UyRtsCsQ25zgwuuKxrihoCVWnw_wcB">Country Inn & Suites </a>is a great place to begin a bicycle trip down the Paul Bunyan trail. Our room had a spectacular view of Lake Bemidji and the Paul Bunyan Trail running along the shore up to Lake Bemidji State Park.</div>
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In the evening, Roberta and I had a wonderful dinner at <a href="http://www.sparklingwatersbemidji.com/">Sparkling Waters Restaurant</a>. Sparkling Waters has an awesome bar and excellent menu. I had an awesome bison burger and Roberta had the walleye ala meuniere (walleye fillets from the nearby Red Lake reservation). Roberta and I enjoyed sketching the festive decor of Sparkling Waters while we shared a dish of the restaurant's chocolate ice cream (nice and light, like a sorbet):</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch in Sparkling Waters.</td></tr>
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We biked back the short distance to Country Inn & Suites and unpacked our art supplies. In addition to my journals, I brought a pad of Strathmore grey, toned paper and various pens and pencils. I planned to work mostly with a black ink Sakura Pigma Graphic Pen and Prismacolor and Faber Castell colored pencils. Roberta also brought her pens and watercolors. Roberta planned to work mostly on loose sheets of various watercolor papers, Annigoni, Strathmore Aquarius and Fabriano. Roberta did this awesome watercolor of twilight over Lake Bemidji from our hotel room.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of Lake Bemidji at dusk.</td></tr>
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The next morning, we prepared for a full day of sketching and bicycling by chowing down in Country Suites sumptuous breakfast buffet. I especially liked the do-it-yourself waffle machine. The coffee was good and strong. Fully caffeinated and loaded with carbs, we biked into Bemidji to be interviewed about our journey down the Paul Bunyan Trail on KB101 radio (Paul Bunyan Broadcasting) by Heidi Boyd:</div>
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After the radio interview, Roberta and I sketched the iconic Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of Paul Bunyan & Babe.</td></tr>
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After sketching Paul Bunyan, I biked across the street to sketch Paul Bunyan's nemesis. <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/8896">a giant re-purposed Muffler Man statue dubbed Nanabozho</a> and a case containing an embalmed wolf:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of Nanaboszho.</td></tr>
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Roberta biked along the shore of Lake Bemidji and captured this view of the city:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of Bemidji across the lake.</td></tr>
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By mid-afternoon, the weather in Bemidji turned hot and humid. We retreated to our hotel to cool off. In the evening, we biked to <a href="http://www.brigidsirishpub.com/">Brigid's Pub</a> in Bemidji. Brigid's Pub has a great selection of beer and awesome pub food. Roberta had a walleye sandwich (also from Red Lake) and I had an awesome burger. I sketched the bar and Roberta sketched the contestants competing in the trivia contest:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the bar at Brigid's Pub.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of trivia night at Brigid's Pub.</td></tr>
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A thunderstorm rolled in overnight and the next morning, we ate breakfast in our hotel waiting for the rain to end. The rain stopped at 11am and we began our journey down the Paul Bunyan Trail. The trail starts off in rolling hills. The Paul Bunyan trail is a former Burlington Northern railroad corridor so the grade is usually gradual and from Bemidji, mostly downhill. We had a strong tailwind that also helped us avoid insects. We did not encounter many mosquitos, but we were pestered by biting flies. The flies left us alone after we doused ourselves with herbal insect repellent. The temperature was cooler, but the humidity was still high.</div>
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We biked a steady nine miles per hour on our Bromptons, stopping in LaPorte at 2pm for lunch. We bought sandwiches at Laporte Grocery and Meats just off the trail. After lunch, we biked the last few miles to our next destination, <a href="http://embracingpines.com/">Embracing Pines Bed & Breakfast </a>in Benedict, about five miles north of Walker. We had pedaled twenty-five miles and Embracing Pines B&B was a welcome oasis. Embracing Pines B&B is just a short distance from the trail. The Embracing Pines B&B has a log cabin, northwoods ambience. After a short snooze, I sketched the cozy, knotty pine common room of the B&B:</div>
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We had a wonderful breakfast the next day. Our hosts Dennis and Charlyne filled us in on the history of the Paul Bunyan Trail and local history. Embracing Pines B&B is very bicycle-friendly and offers a shuttle service to the Paul Bunyan and Heartland trails. Embracing Pines has a deck with an nice view of the Kabekona River. Roberta sketched the tall pines around the house:</div>
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The deck also has several bird feeders. The deck was swarming with ruby-throated hummingbirds. They seemed almost tame and it was a treat to be able to sketch hummingbirds up close:</div>
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<i><a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/bicycling-paul-bunyan-trail-from_4.html"><b>TOMORROW</b>: The journey continues as Roberta and I bike to Walker and beyond...</a></i></div>
Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-84207567905857946282015-08-02T19:35:00.001-07:002015-08-02T19:35:15.924-07:00News Report About Our Sketching and Bicycling Trip on the Paul Bunyan TrailWe are back from our awesome <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/">Jefferson Lines</a> multimodal journey <a href="http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/press-releases/story.aspx?id=1003730619&er=NA">to Paul Bunyan land</a>. We have a pile of sketches to scan before we put up a blog post tomorrow. In the meantime, watch this <a href="http://www.lptv.org/artistic-duos-journey-continues/">fun interview we did in Walker with Jackson Brunner of Lakeland Public Television</a>:<br />
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Here is a map of our trip with all places we stopped and sketched. Click on the map to make it bigger:<br />
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<br />Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-52407593865627993682015-07-15T12:10:00.000-07:002015-07-15T12:16:23.849-07:00Red Wing & Biking the Cannon Falls TrailFor our 32nd anniversary, Roberta and I wanted to go someplace close to Saint Paul where we could bike and sketch. We also wanted to give our Bromptons a fairly long test-ride approximately the distance of the longest stretch on our Bemidji to Brainerd trip at the end of the month. We decided on staying a night in Red Wing and bicycling the <a href="http://www.cannonvalleytrail.com/">Cannon Valley Trail</a> to Cannon Falls and back. We booked a room at the historic <a href="http://www.st-james-hotel.com/">Saint James Hotel </a>and bought two round Amtrak trip tickets.<br />
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Monday, we boarded the Amtrak Empire Builder (it was two hours late) with our Bromptons folded up and stored in the luggage compartment. It's a short trip to Red Wing from Union Depot and there's nice scenery along the way. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/lockdam2.htm">At the Hastings Lock & Dam # 2,</a> we saw pelicans and turkey vultures waiting for lunchtime fish meal to come swimming over the dam.<br />
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It was real hot when we arrived so we ate sandwiches and tried to sketch, but both of us were too hot to sketch, so we gave up and had dinner at the <a href="http://www.thestaghead.com/">Staghead</a> just a block from the Saint James. The Staghead has good beer on tap and the food was good with fresh, local ingredients. We did a few sketches:<br />
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The Amtrak train was an hour and half late. We love Amtrak, but it is so shameful that our nation has such terrible train service compared to other countries. If we can send a spacecraft to Pluto, why can't we fix our passenger rail service? It was so discouraging to read the following notice in the Red Wing train station:</div>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-25681744703588224372015-07-10T15:56:00.001-07:002015-08-04T14:59:05.078-07:00Gearing Up for More Sketchy AdventuresWe had a lot of fun <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/our-sketching-trip-to-sioux-falls-south.html">sketching and bicycling in Sioux Falls</a> last month. Lots of times people ask us where we got our bicycling or sketching gear. So, this post is about some new art and bicycling gear pictured here:<br />
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The Brompton isn't new, but I recently got it tuned up at<a href="http://www.calhouncycle.com/"> Calhoun Cycle</a> which makes it as good as new. While I was picking up my Brompton, I purchased a nifty <a href="http://banjobrothers.com/">Banjo Brothers </a>Metro backpack. The backpack is perfect for carrying all my sketching supplies, water bottle etc.<br />
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One new thing that fits real good in the backpack is a Niji roll-up pencil holder I got at my favorite art store <a href="http://www.wetpaintart.com/">Wet Pain</a>t. A lot of my sketches are pen and colored pencil on <a href="http://www.strathmoreartist.com/blog-reader/items/ken-avidor-sketches-namta-2013.html">Strathmore toned paper</a>. Speaking of Strathmore, check out the sketch I did for their<a href="http://www.strathmoreartist.com/pass-the-journal/journal-full.html#/journal/7/show"> Pass The Journal project.</a><br />
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The other thing that fits good in the backpack is the <a href="http://www.helinox.eu/">Helinox</a> chair I got from <a href="http://www.midwestmtn.com/">Midwest Mountaineering. </a>It's compact and lightweight - perfect for bicycling and sketching.<br />
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I'll get to try out the new gear next week when we take Amtrak from Saint Paul's Union Depot down to Red Wing. We will stay overnight at the Saint James Hotel and bike the <a href="http://www.cannonvalleytrail.com/">Cannon Valley Trail </a>the next day.<br />
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At the end of the month, we'll be taking a <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/">Jefferson Lines</a> bus up to Bemidji and bike down the Paul Bunyan Trail to Brainerd. This map has the basic itinerary:<br />
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-23716171306915873302015-06-15T16:02:00.000-07:002015-06-19T12:07:09.844-07:00Our Sketching Trip to Sioux Falls, South DakotaWarm weather has returned to the Upper MIdwest and once again Roberta and I are traveling to interesting places in our region to sketch. Our friends at<a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/"> Jefferson Lines</a> suggested we visit <a href="http://visitsiouxfalls.com/">Sioux Falls </a>, South Dakota on same "Big Bluestem" route we took last year to <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/sketching-city-of-pipestone-minnesota.html">Pipestone, Minnesota</a>. Roberta and I had never been to Sioux Falls, so we were excited to explore a new city on bike and sketch our discoveries.<br />
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Wednesday, We took the Green Line from <a href="http://www.startribune.com/life-captured-in-sketch-pads/287594801/">our home in Lowertown's Union Depot</a> to the bus terminal in Minneapolis to catch our Jefferson Lines bus to Sioux Falls. I sketched our bus driver as we made our way southwest from the Twin Cities. Roberta sketched the rolling countryside outside her window. Our bus had wifi, so we were able to upload our sketches to <a href="https://twitter.com/Avidor">Twitter</a> (click on sketches to make them bigger).<br />
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The sky, the next morning was overcast and gloomy. We were prepared for a day of indoor sketching at several museums. We walked next door to the <a href="http://www.minnehahacounty.org/museums/exhibits/pettigrew_museum.asp">Pettigrew Museum.</a> The museum is housed in the former residence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Pettigrew">Senator Richard Pettigrew</a>, Roberta took the tour while I sketched some of the objects and curiosities in display cases.<br />
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We left the museum and biked to the <a href="http://fallsoverlookcafe.net/">Falls Overlook Café</a> in Falls Park for lunch. We enjoyed eating while gazing out at the park. The rain was coming down pretty hard when we left the café, so we biked back to the B&B. After we dried off, Roberta sketched a vintage fainting couch just inside the front door and added the fainting woman from memory.<br />
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The rain ended Friday morning, so after eating a delicious, sumptuous breakfast downstairs, we split up again. Roberta biked to Falls Park and painted this awesome watercolor of the falls:<br />
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I biked down to Fawick Park along the Big Sioux River to sketch a bronze cast of Michelangelo's David. The full-sized, exact replica of the original sculpture was a gift to the City from the Fawick family. The nude statue<a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/3330"> scandalized </a>some of the city's more puritanical citizens at the time.<br />
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After sketching the stature of David, I biked south of downtown to check out the <a href="http://visitsiouxfalls.com/things-to-do/attractions-and-entertainment/directory/sioux-empire-medical-museum/">Sioux Empire Medical Museum</a> in the concourse of the Sanford Medical Center. I love small museums devoted to esoteric branches of scientific knowledge. The Sioux Empire Medical Museum has an extensive collection of medical curiosities including a foot-powered dental drill and electric-shock therapy machines. I sketched the vintage iron lung attended by a nurse mannequin in period uniform.<br />
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I wished I had more time to sketch the other ancient medical devices, but Roberta and I had tickets to a <a href="http://saintsbaseball.com/">Saint Paul Saints</a> vs the <a href="http://sfcanaries.com/">Sioux Falls Canaries</a> game at "<a href="http://digitalballparks.com/Northern/SiouxFalls.html">The Birdcage</a>".<br />
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Roberta and I like to sketch everywhere, and especially at baseball games. <a href="http://urbansketchers-twincities.blogspot.com/2015/06/sketching-saint-paul-saints-joplin.html">We sketched the Saints earlier in the week </a>at the new CHS Field just a short walk from our home in Lowertown. It was a great night for baseball and there was a good crowd on hand to watch the Canaries win the first game. The Saints won the second game.<br />
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Our final day in Saint Paul was warm and partly cloudy, perfect for sketching outdoors. Roberta chose to paint the lovely Victorian B&B.<br />
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I biked back to the river to sketch the very nice bike and pedestrian trail on the opposite bank:<br />
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Roberta and I got together in the afternoon and biked to Philips Street for some excellent pizza at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fieropizza.beproud">Fiero</a> Pizza on the<a href="http://sculpturewalksiouxfalls.com/"> SculptureWalk</a>.<br />
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After lunch, we had an opportunity to bike part of the extraordinary bike trail that rings the city of Sioux Falls on way back to the Jefferson Lines depot. We had a lot of fun sketching in Sioux Falls and look forward to returning to sketch things we missed.<br />
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Roberta and I took a trip from the frozen tundra in the Upper Midwest to the sunny climes of the Southwest to visit family, bicycle and sketch. We took out Brompton folding bikes and flew this time. First stop was Las Vegas where our eldest daughter lives. She drove us to Hoover Dam wherewe did some sketching:</div>
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After hiking around the dam and working up an appetite, we motored to Boulder City and ate an awesome lunch at <a href="http://foxsmokehousebbq.com/">Fox Smokehouse & BBQ</a>. I especially liked the Pulled Pork and the Cowboy Beans. Here's my sketch of Dan Fox:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of Dan Fox</td></tr>
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The next day, we hiked in the <a href="http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/lvfo/blm_programs/blm_special_areas/red_rock_nca.html">Red Rock National Conservation Area</a>. Roberta and I sketched a mountain:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of a mountain at Red Rock.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta and I and our sketch journals at Red Rock.</td></tr>
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In the evening we walked around the famous Las Vegas Strip. Roberta did this sketch of a <a href="http://www.venetian.com/hotel/attractions/gondola-rides.html">gondola at The Venetian</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the gondola at the Venetian.</td></tr>
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We visited Container Park, an attraction made from shipping containers, a favorite of young hipsters:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My quick sketch of Container Park.</td></tr>
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And a few blocks away, the Downtown Las Vegas <a href="http://vegasexperience.com/">Fremont Street Experience</a>:</div>
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<br />We took a bus through miles of desert to Los Angeles. The bus let us off downtown where lots of homeless people camp out on the streets in tents:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of a homeless man and his tent.</td></tr>
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Los Angeles has some pretty good bike paths. We especially like the <a href="http://www.ballonacreek.org/">Ballona Creek trail</a> from Culver City to the Pacific Ocean:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My map of the Ballona Creek bike trail.</td></tr>
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The creek is mostly lined with concrete which reminded us of the old horror movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them!">"Them"</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the Ballona Creek trail.</td></tr>
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The next day, we took a Metrolink train down to San Clemente. We ate a yummy breakfast at <a href="http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/20/244680/restaurant/OC/La-Galette-Creperie-San-Clemente">La Galette </a>:<br />
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Afterwards, Roberta and I sketched the San Clemente Art Gallery, the Farmers Market and the San Clemente Pier:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the Farmer's Market and a tightrope walker.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the art gallery & Roberta.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the scene in front of the San Clemente pier.</td></tr>
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The next day it rained. I sketched the ghost of former San Clemente resident, Richard Nixon:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My rainy day sketch of Nixon's ghost.</td></tr>
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The next day was warm and sunny, so we visited the tide pools of <a href="http://www.visitlagunabeach.com/things-to-do/beaches/tide-pools/">Laguna Beach</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the tide pools and our guide.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of the tide pools.</td></tr>
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We returned to Los Angeles where we enjoyed an awesome dinner at <a href="http://www.thebunshopla.com/">The Bun Shop </a>on Western Avenue:<br />
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In<a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/sketching-city-of-pipestone-minnesota.html"> yesterday's post</a>, Roberta and I travelled to Pipestone on Thursday from Minneapolis via a westbound Jefferson Lines bus . We sketched at the Pipestone National Monument Friday morning and then sketched the buildings along Main Street and Hiawatha Avenue in the center of Pipestone in the bright, clear, October sunshine. The <a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/01/golden-hour.html">Golden Hour</a> faded and the ruddy stones of Pipestone's landmark buildings, that only minutes before blazed in the amber beams of the setting sun, now took on a palette of darker and more somber hues – <i>Pipestone's Paranormal Weekend was about to begin.</i></div>
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<i></i>We prepared for our first night of paranormal activities by fortifying ourselves with dinner at <a href="http://www.roadfood.com/Restaurant/Overview/659/langes-caf">Lange's Cafe</a> (click on sketches to make them bigger):</div>
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Lange's has good, classic, American family restaurant fare, but their specialty is pies. The sour cream raisin pie is incredibly awesome (top shelf):</div>
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After stuffing ourselves with pie at Lange's we took in a play at the<a href="http://www.pipestoneminnesota.com/performingartscenter/"> Pipestone Performing Arts Center. </a>The Calumet Players performed a medley of macabre tales in a production titled "Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe". The local thespians did a good job of dramatizing "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Raven" and the actors succeeded in giving me the frights. The set design was especially awesome. I did a sketch of a scene from the play from memory during intermission:<br />
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After the play, we walked back to the Calumet Inn to meet some of the participants in the weekend's paranormal activities and listen to their eerie experiences with ghosts by electric candlelight. Some of the ghost hunters had some hi-tech gear designed to track down ethereal wraiths in our midst. We searched high and low. But the closest we came to bagging an apparition was when we sat in a dark, un-renovated room on the third floor rumored to be haunted by a ghost named Charlie who once walked among the living until a fateful fire on Valentines Day 1944 in the Calumet Inn transported him into the realm of the supernatural:<br />
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I briefly thought I felt the presence of a being from the great beyond, but I decided the sensation was more likely the effect of a surfeit of sugar in my bloodstream boosted by the awesome sour cream raisin pie I ate back at Lange's Cafe. Roberta and I turned in early so we'd be refreshed for Saturday's schedule of phantasmagoric activities.<br />
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Saturday morning, Roberta and I joined our fellow seekers of the paranormal at the <a href="http://www.pipestoneminnesota.com/museum/">Pipestone County Museum</a> from which I biked to a local cemetery for a tour conducted by a local historian:</div>
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Roberta skipped the cemetery tour to finish her sketch of the Calumet Inn. After the tour of the cemetery, Roberta and I met at the old Masonic Lodge on Main Street. No longer in use, the lodge had some interesting murals and artifacts:<br />
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After the Masonic Lodge tour, we filed into the Performing Arts Center for a "gallery reading" by psychic medium Susie Otto though which the dearly departed sent messages to loved ones in the audience:<br />
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After the gallery reading, I walked a few blocks south to do a quick sketch of the Pipestone County Courthouse. The courthouse is an impressive, majestic building and I hope I can return someday and do a more detailed sketch:<br />
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Roberta and I had dinner and I rushed to sketch another landmark, the old water tower:</div>
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As the curtain of night descended on the city of Pipestone, we joined a "<a href="http://www.pipestoneminnesota.com/visitors/festivalevents/ghostwalktours/">Ghost Walk</a>" – three actors in period costumes led us on an exploration of Pipestone's alleys and byways while relating tales of spirits that haunted various buildings. I'm not very good at sketching in the dark, but Roberta did some nice sketches of our guides by lamplight:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another sketch by Roberta of a ghost-guide.</td></tr>
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After the tour of Pipestone, we were foot-sore and weary, but we partook in one more ghost-hunt at the County Museum, but we failed to glimpse any apparitions. We slunk back to the Inn fell into a deep slumber.<br />
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The next day, as we were packing up our Bromptons, Roberta noticed her bike-light was facing backwards. Since neither of us had turned the light around and our door was locked, we concluded it was one of Pipestone's many playful poltergeists that pulled the prank on us. <i>We had our paranormal experience</i>!</div>
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We enjoyed our sketching trip to Pipestone and look forward to returning someday. Pipestone is very sketchable and we recommend taking a trip there to all our sketching friends. Pipestone is also a great place to bike. You can rent a bike for 5 dollars a day at the Ewart Community Center (<a href="http://www.pipestoneactiveliving.com/">info here</a>). I enjoyed bicycling on the <a href="http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_trails/casey_jones/index.html">Casey Jones State Trail</a> that begins on the edge of town near the big grain elevator. The trail runs straight and level through the cornfields:<br />
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We look forward to traveling on Jefferson Lines to more locations in Minnesota. <i>Stay tuned!</i><br />
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-50428419531262425742014-10-13T15:15:00.001-07:002014-10-15T14:19:27.374-07:00Sketching the City of Pipestone, Minnesota<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last weekend, Roberta and I had an awesome sketching excursion to<a href="http://www.progressivepipestone.com/"> Pipestone, Minnesota</a>. Pipestone is a charming city in Southwestern Minnesota with a population of 4,311 residents, not counting the many ghosts reputed to inhabit Pipestone. The city is named after red quartzite Native Americans have quarried there for hundreds of years and carved into ceremonial peace pipes (calumet). There are several fine old buildings in Pipestone faced with the ruddy stone. We were eager to sketch the sights around town and in the nearby <a href="http://www.nps.gov/pipe/index.htm">Pipestone National Monument</a>. We also wanted to sketch Pipestone's Paranormal Weekend (more about hunt for Pipestone's ghosts in the next blog post).<br />
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Pipestone is a great destination for folks like us who prefer car-free travel. <a href="https://www.jeffersonlines.com/locations.asp?st=MN">Pipestone is a stop on the Jefferson Lines route </a>between Minneapolis and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Pipestone's streets are easy to bike and most attractions are within blocks of one another. <a href="http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_trails/casey_jones/index.html">The Casey Jones State Trail</a> is a nice little bicycle and pedestrian trail through the cornfields on the edge of town.<br />
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Our trip began in our Union Depot loft in Saint Paul. Roberta and I packed our clothes in the <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/roberta-makes-garment-bags-for-our.html">garment bags </a> Roberta made last year to pack into our <a href="http://brompton.com/our-bikes/accessories-explorer/part/107/brompton-bag-b-bag">Brompton B-bag</a>s with our bikes. We packed our art supplies into our <a href="http://brompton.com/our-bikes/accessories-explorer/part/23/s-bag-set-with-black-flap">Brompton S-bag</a>s. All packed up on our Brompton bikes, Roberta and I rolled our bikes onto the <a href="http://www.metrotransit.org/metro-green-line">Green Line</a> to Minneapolis and biked the short distance to the <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/view-map.asp?p=1&l=247">Hawthorne Transit Station</a>. We collapsed our bikes and zipped them up into the B-bags with our garment bags and waited for the bus which arrived on time. Jefferson Lines like Amtrak, is awesomely progressive and environmental about accepting folding bikes as luggage as long as the bags weigh less than 50 pounds.<br />
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Pipestone is about 200 miles from Minneapolis by road and the bus takes about 5 hours with nine stops along the way. Roberta passed the time by sketching some of the scenery outside our window(click on the sketches to make them bigger):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of a U-pick pumpkin patch near Carver (Strathmore Series 500 Journal)</td></tr>
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I sketched the inside of the bus and our bus driver ("Just call me Bear"). Jefferson Lines has nice, new buses with very comfortable seats and lots of weird, hi-tech gadgets I like to sketch:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My pen & colored pencil sketch on Strathmore toned drawing paper of our bus & driver "Bear".</td></tr>
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Bear dropped us off on time at our scheduled stop behind Lange's Cafe in Pipestone at 5:15 PM:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only part of this sketch I did on site was the sign. The rest from a photo and memory.</td></tr>
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We unpacked our Bromptons and attached our bags and biked down Main Street to the historic <a href="http://www.calumetinn.com/">Calumet Inn </a>on the corner of Main Street and Hiawatha Avenue:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's watercolor sketch <span style="font-size: 12.7272720336914px;"> Strathmore Aquarius paper </span><span style="font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">of the Calumet Inn.</span></td></tr>
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The Calumet is a nice hotel with a lot of character that artists like Roberta and I appreciate. We liked the friendly, local vibe. Our room had some nice antiques (Roberta sketched the dresser). We had a nice dinner in the bar and turned in early. </div>
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Friday Morning, we biked several blocks north to the Pipestone Monument. The monument is a very small park, but it has many scenes we wanted to paint. I chose the "leaping rock" for my only watercolor of the trip. Roberta painted the waterfall:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's watercolor of the waterfall.</td></tr>
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Above the falls, there is a rock with graffiti carved into it by the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/pipe/historyculture/nicollet-rock.htm">1838 Joseph Nicollet expedition</a>. I was impressed the carver bothered to put serifs on the letters. A little further on, I sketched the pile of rocks named "The Old Stone Face":</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of fun stuff to sketch at the Pipestone Monument.</td></tr>
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We could have spent all day sketching at the monument, but we wanted to get back to town. Before leaving, Roberta bought a turtle pendant carved from pipestone in the visitors center. I sketched one of the artisans as he carved a pipe out of a chunk of red rock:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few sketches of the visitors center in my Strathmore toned paper journal.</td></tr>
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We biked back to town and spent the rest of the afternoon sketching the buildings in town. Roberta sketched the Claumet Inn, while I sketched buildings on the corner of Hiawatha Avenue and Main Street:</div>
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I wished I could sketch each historic building separately, especially the eccentric Moore block, across the street from the Calumet Inn with its oddball gargoyle-like sandstone carvings and the old City Hall, now the <a href="http://www.pipestoneminnesota.com/museum/">Pipestone County Museum</a>. I also sketched some close-ups of the weird carvings on the Moore Block building:<br />
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After the sun set, we packed up our art materials. We walked over to Lange's Cafe for dinner (we sampled a couple of Lange's famous pies the following day). After dinner, we joined the celebrants of Pipestone's Paranormal Weekend as they began their quest to get a glimpse of one or more of haunted Pipestone's celebrated ghosts. Our sketches of the ghost hunt and more in the next post – <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/sketching-paranormal-in-pipestone.html">Sketching the Paranormal in Pipestone, Minnesota.</a></div>
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It's the time of year we travel to the east and west coast to visit our far flung families. A few weeks ago I took off on a trip to visit Mom in Los Angeles. I planned to make the trip a sketching trip, so I chose to take Amtrak's Southwest Chief with my<a href="http://brompton.com/"> Brompton<u> folding bike </u></a>in a <a href="http://brompton.com/our-bikes/accessories-explorer/part/107/brompton-bag-b-bag">B Bag</a> and my sketching supplies in the <a href="http://brompton.com/our-bikes/accessories-explorer/9/front-luggage">C bag</a>. I packed my clothes in the garment bag Roberta made (see <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/roberta-makes-garment-bags-for-our.html">this post for photos of Roberta's garment bag</a>). When it was all packed it weighed 37 lbs. The weight limit is 50 lbs. Here's a sketch of how </div>
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I've been eager to try sketching with pen and watercolor in the big <a href="http://www.strathmoreartist.com/product-reader/items/500-series-mixed-media-hardbound-art-journal.html">Strathmore 500 Series mixed media hardbound art journal</a> I purchased at Wet Paint last month. I managed to fit the big journal and my smaller toned paper journal that use for quick sketches with pen and dry media with a compact watercolor kit I made out of a pencil case. Here's the list:</div>
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I took the Megabus from the Union Depot in Saint Paul to Union Station in Saint Paul to knock a couple days off the trip. I arrived in Ciccago with plenty of time to sketch other travelers:</div>
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I boarded the Southwest Chief and found myself sitting next to<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Winkler/81917282801"> awesome cartoonist Tom Winkler</a>. We had fun sitting in the observation car sketching each other (click on the sketch to make it bigger for the panoramic effect):</div>
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The scenery on the trip started off with the miles and miles of corn and soybean fields. Dull except for the occasional feedlot or acrobatic crop-duster:</div>
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After sleeping through much of Kansas, we were rolling through classic cowboy film landscapes with buttes and mesas and spectacular desert vistas:</div>
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Raton, New Mexico is an interesting stop on the route:</div>
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Roberta and I are fans of Breaking Bad, so I had to insert the two main characters in the desert landscape west of Albuquerque:</div>
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I did lots more sketches of the desert, but I won't post them all. We arrived in Los Angeles in the afternoon and I unpacked and unfolded the Brompton and biked to the Dover where I stayed for the week:</div>
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For entertainment, Mom and I walked to the Farmers Market on Fairfax. Godd food and good music:</div>
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Los Angeles has a lot of weird trees. This is a pen and watercolor sketch of a tree growing next next to the Fairfax Branch Library:</div>
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Here's another pen and watercolor sketch of two big tiki heads belonging to a movie prop store I found just biking around (Los Angeles is a pretty good place for bicycling if you stay off the busy streets):</div>
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My mom and I went to the Page Museum at the LaBrea Tar Pits. Lots of skeletons to sketch like this extinct condor:<br />
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I did this watercolor sketch of the beautiful Union Station while waiting for the return trip on the Southwest Chief</div>
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There are awesome sketchers everywhere. While I was sketching the Union Station, Luis here showed me his sketches and his impressive pen kit:</div>
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Back on the Southwest Chief, I encountered Dotsero Doc and Penelope Proper dressed up in style of the Wild West. They allowed me to sketch them (Roberta and I love sketching costumed models). Here they are and the sketch I did of them:<br />
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The Southwest Chief goes through some amazing scenery. The Raton Pass is especially beautiful. After the steep climb and descent, it's mostly dull - a good time to talk with your fellow passengers and catch up on your sleep:</div>
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Back in Chicago, I waited for the Megabus outside Union Station and sketched some of my fellow Megabus passengers:<br />
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I'm back now in Minnesota with memories and sketches of my trip on the Southwest Chief and looking forward to the next sketching adventure:<br />
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-20480480737167432022014-04-27T10:07:00.001-07:002014-04-27T10:08:47.619-07:00Roberta Makes Garment Bags For Our BromptonsRoberta created garment bags for our two Brompton bikes. Roberta designed the lightweight bags to fit inside a Brompton "B" bag eliminating the need for an additional luggage bag and helping protect the bike.<br />
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Now we can travel in style!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The garment bags have two pockets on each side with heavy-duty snaps:</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easily fits inside a Brompton "B" bag padding the bike.</td></tr>
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<br />Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-25074433922521958062014-02-02T15:15:00.000-08:002014-02-02T15:15:28.017-08:00Sketching and Bicycling in Los AngelesIn the previous post, <a href="http://avidortravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/sketching-and-bicycling-in-san-clemente.html">we visited family in San Clemente</a>. We biked down to the Metrolink station and caught a train up to Union Station in Los Angeles. We got on the Purple Line all the way as far as it goes to Wilshire and Western. We got on our Bromptons and peddled down 4th Street to our motel. Los Angeles is a great place to ride a bike as long as you stay off the busy streets.<br />
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We were only a short bike ride from my Mom's apartment, the Los Angeles County Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits. I did a sketch of a bubbling, oozing pit with pen and colored pencils in my small, Strathmore toned paper journal:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the La Brea Tar Pits.</td></tr>
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Another fun place to sketch in Los Angeles is the Farmers Market. Roberta did a fun sketch i watercolor in her Strathmore Hardbound 500 Series Mixed Media Art Journal:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch in the Farmers Market.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Farmer's Market sketch in my small journal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another fun place to sketch is in front of Trader Joe's.</td></tr>
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We wished we could spend more time in Los Angeles sketching and biking, but we had to leave. Here is a sketch I did of the beautiful palm trees in the Park La Brea community in my big journal:<br />
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-49032024238411485962014-02-01T14:27:00.004-08:002014-02-02T11:32:38.411-08:00Sketching and Bicycling in San Clemente, California<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Last week, Roberta and I escaped the icy grip of the Polar Vortex and visited family in San Clemente in sunny, Southern California. We took along our Brompton folding bikes. We stow our journals, art supplies, water, suntan lotion and other stuff in Brompton S-bags attached to the front bike frames:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta & I peddling around San Clemente on our Brompton folding bikes.</td></tr>
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Roberta captured the transition from the frozen farm fields of Minnesota to the blue skies and warm sea breezes of San Clemente (watercolor and Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils on Strathmore Hardbound 500 Series Mixed Media Art Journal).<br />
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San Clemente is a fun place to bike. There are a bunch of good bike lanes on on roads to the beach from where we were staying. We were staying way up in the hills. Here's a sketch I did of the view using watercolor on Strathmore Series 500 Mixed Media paper:</div>
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The late January chill and cold water doesn't stop the dedicated surfers of San Clemente. Roberta sketched a wetsuit hanging from a tree in a front yard up in the hills:</div>
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We did a bunch of sketching on and around the San Clemente Pier, a popular place for tourists and surfers:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta sketched surfers on a cool. grey day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketches in my small toned paper Strathmore journal – <a href="http://www.lagalettecreperie.com/">La Gallette Creperie</a> and the pier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketches in the small journal of surfers from the pier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sketch of the umbrellas & heaters at the <a href="http://www.thefishermansrestaurant.com/">Fisherman's Restaurant </a>on the pier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some sketches Roberta did on the pier.</td></tr>
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We had a great time sketching and bicycling in San Clemente and we look forward to returning to the warm breezes, sunny days and dive-bombing hummingbirds:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Lots of hummingbirds in San Clemente.</td></tr>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-86528205294795628082013-07-17T13:26:00.000-07:002013-07-17T13:58:43.359-07:00Our Bus/Bike Sketching Trip to Duluth, MinnesotaRoberta and I got married July 14th thirty years ago. It's always a hot day on our anniversary. This year we took a trip to Duluth hoping Lake Superior's breezes would cool us off while we biked and sketched around town. We got cool weather for two of our three days in Duluth, but the wind shifted from the South on the last day giving us the same brutal heatwave everyone else was experiencing. In spite of the weather, we were able to do a lot of sketching and bicycling.<br />
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Roberta and I caught the <a href="http://www.jeffersonlines.com/">Jefferson Lines</a> "Rocket Rider" bus to Duluth early Sunday morning from St. Paul's Union Depot. We had a comfortable ride up Highway 35 and arrived at the bus station in Duluth before noon. We unfolded our <a href="http://www.brompton.co.uk/">Brompton</a> bikes and biked the three and a half miles to downtown on an on-road bike trail through a gritty industrial area on broken pavement, some of which was being repaved. There are plans to make a better bike path along this stretch connecting the Munger Trail with Duluth.</div>
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The bicycling is much better along the lakeshore north from downtown Duluth. We biked the Lakewalk, a paved trail with lots of great scenery. Along the Lakewalk, we stopped to sketch at Leif Erikson park, Congdon Park and Lester Park. We also sketched a thick fog rolling in on the deck of<a href="http://www.fitgers.com/"> Fitgers Restaurant</a>. We also found a lot to sketch in Canal Park - the famous lift bridge from the deck of Grandma's and the fishing boat-turned snack shack called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crabby-Ol-Bills/437161862969932">Crabby Ol' Bills</a>. There is also a lot of sketchable stuff at the <a href="http://www.duluthdepot.org/">Duluth Depot.</a> I had a lot of fun sketching the William Crooks locomotive in the <a href="http://lsrm.org/Home/index.html">Lake Superior Railroad Museum</a>.</div>
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We look forward to returning to Duluth for more bicycling and sketching.</div>
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Here's Roberta's sketches (click on the sketches to make them bigger):</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from Leif Erikson Park.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The falls in Lester Park.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tischer Creek in Congdon Park.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fitgers.</td></tr>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-19107427165024977502013-06-30T20:13:00.000-07:002013-06-30T20:20:18.915-07:00Sketching Mademoiselle Miel's Urban Apiary Roberta and I are preparing for our next bike and sketching trip to Duluth in July, but we wanted to take a trip and sketch something right here in our hometown. We've explored and sketched a great deal of downtown St. Paul, but there's much above the street and skyway level we have not sketched.<br />
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Last year, Roberta and I attended one of the Science Museum of Minnesota's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/305280549582928/declines/">Beaker and Brush events called "The Amazing Honey Bee"</a> with scientist Dr. Marla Spivak and Susan Brown (Mademoiselle Miel) who creates amazingly delicious honey/chocolate bon-bons. Mademoiselle Miels's honey bon-bons are chocolate confections filled with honey from local beehives. The bon-bons are delicious and artistic - some bon-bons are decorated with edible gold leaf.<br />
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I especially like the smoked honey bon-bons with a touch of single malt scotch.<br />
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The honey for Mademoiselle Miels's bon-bons comes from beehives in various locations including the apiary we visited on a rooftop in downtown St. Paul with a wonderful view of the Mississippi River (to protect the bees' privacy we won't disclose the location). Madamoiselle Miel graciously allowed us some time to sketch the hives as she inspected the hives and performed routine maintenance on the hives in a white beekeeper outfit.<br />
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The bees were friendly and did not sting us as we sketched them.<br />
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Visit the Mademoiselle Miel <a href="http://mademoisellemiel.com/">website</a> and <a href="http://mademoisellemiel.blogspot.com/">blog </a>to learn more about where you can get honey bon-bons and other fine products. Mademoiselle Miel has a new kitchen and showroom at 342 Kellogg Boulevard West in St. Paul across the street from the Minnesota History Center.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roberta's sketch of Mademoiselle Miel and her beehives.</td></tr>
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Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1204706226981408940.post-43107180842700808092013-06-16T07:47:00.001-07:002014-02-22T13:39:36.841-08:00Sketches from Brompton Bike/Amtrak Train Trip to New York City - Part Two (Roberta's sketches).I stayed on in NYC to take care of Nu-nu, Eric & Katie's cat, while they were traveling abroad. I concluded that biking in New York was by far the best (and cheapest) way to get around. One can cover a lot of ground in relatively little time. And you develop nerves of steel dealing with the traffic!<br />
I was able to explore areas of Brooklyn that I'd never bothered going to in my years of living in Manhattan. Click on the sketches to make them bigger.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This mini accordion-fold journal was a fun way to do quick sketches. </td></tr>
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(Bottom) The new "Freedom Tower" that replaces the two World Trade Center buildings. I think it's an improvement over the clunky towers that once dominated lower Manhattan. This drawing was done over a partial list of ingredients that were in a superb dip from a Mediterranean restaurant in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot late afternoon in Abingdon Square Park in the West Villiage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More West Villiage sketches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Astral (left) is one of the largest old apartment buildings in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. The west-side bikeway (right) runs along the Hudson River. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm intrigued with doing night scenes in watercolor. Not easy unless you're doing the painting from a well-lit space. In this case it was created while sitting in a frozen yogurt place. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We go from Sunday afternoon in Williamsburg to daybreak somewhere in Indiana. This concludes the trip.</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1191109116"></span><span id="goog_1191109117"></span><br />Avidorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850327519402438923noreply@blogger.com0