Althouse: Actually, I have ventured away from my outpost in Madison, Wisconsin.

December 13, 2006

Actually, I have ventured away from my outpost in Madison, Wisconsin.

22 comments:

Ron said...: Chi town? Milwaukee? Off for Xmas shopping, or just plain fun? Whichever, please blog it!; 12/13/06, 7:33 AM
Simon said...: If you venture as far south as Indiana, Illinois or St. Louis, there's a standing lunch invitation for you. ;); 12/13/06, 7:38 AM
MadisonMan said...: When I was 11 and visiting my grandmother, I went to the top of the First Wisconsin Tower on a sunny day. What a view! I don't think the view yesterday would have been so spectacular.; 12/13/06, 8:00 AM
AllenS said...: Are you a little tipsy, this morning?; 12/13/06, 8:06 AM
Anonymous said...: AllenS: Maybe it's an inner ear thing ;-); 12/13/06, 8:11 AM
Simon said...: Dave said...
"Cities are the only environment in which I feel comfortable. The larger the better."

I'm completely the opposite. I suppose that the very things that makes big city living appealing to some people are the same things that make it repulsive to others. Now, with that having been said, I don't know that I'd want to live in the middle of nowhere, there is a lower size limit, but my rule of thumb would be that I wouldn't want to live in a town that I couldn't walk briskly from one end to the other of in an hour or so.; 12/13/06, 8:13 AM
reader_iam said...: I'd love to live in a big city and always assumed I would, but, as it's turned out, I'm destined to go through life without having done so.

I'm also a cat person who has only dogs.

You make your choices and go with what you get! There are compensations everywhere.; 12/13/06, 8:36 AM
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reader_iam said...: I do live in a small city--for example, it's too big for Simon to briskly walk across in an hour--though he could walk to Illinois and back in that time, watching the bald eagles come "home" for the winter nesting as he does so.; 12/13/06, 8:39 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Karl: Good eye!; 12/13/06, 8:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Well, for those that questioned it, here's photographic evidence that Althouse leans to the right!

:-)

Verification word: fuxbahc. I'm not touching that one!; 12/13/06, 8:48 AM
Simon said...: Dave said...
"Simon--I "walk briskly" from one end of Manhattan to the other every day."

Yes, but Dave - the city doesn't end at the river. ;) You cross the river, and it's all open fields beyond that, right? ;)

I had thought that Manhattan was but the central hub of a giant urban conurbation that stretches through Long Island in the east, to Mount Vernon in the North, and to at very least New Brunswick in the south? :p; 12/13/06, 8:54 AM
Sort-of-Mad Max said...: I'd guess you were at Wabash and Pearson, looking east at Water Tower Place; is that Loyola Law School you're photoing from?

I suppose a little Christmas shopping on the Mag Mile is in order, just to find out what you've always needed, can't live without, and can't afford (often all in the same package). Enjoy!; 12/13/06, 9:14 AM
Paul Dirks said...: Not to brag or anything, but having done that Chicago in December thing one too many times, the view out my window now looks a little more like this:

http://www.birdsongvi.com/Sea01.jpg; 12/13/06, 9:15 AM
Paul Dirks said...: better link; 12/13/06, 9:39 AM
reader_iam said...: Crust: FYI, for the future...with Haloscan it's possible to link right to a specific comment, so that people don't have to scroll, scroll, scroll ... .; 12/13/06, 10:07 AM
Fritz said...: Ann,
You got me, I thought that was Milwaukee at first glance. M&I Bank in the foreground 1st Wisconsin Bank in the background. It's Chicago right?; 12/13/06, 10:46 AM
MadisonMan said...: I also thought it was Milwaukee, although after I published my comment I thought Wait! First Wisconsin Tower isn't that narrow! And what's that other tall building!

Oh well. One foggy Great Lakes city can look so much like another at this time of year.; 12/13/06, 11:08 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Karl: Yes, you're right. I'm at a conference...; 12/13/06, 1:22 PM
MadisonMan said...: Shouldn't conferences in December be somewhere warm?; 12/13/06, 2:10 PM
Ann Althouse said...: MM: Think Christmas decorations, shopping...; 12/13/06, 3:26 PM
Sasha Amorosa said...: Ann,

Check EMAIL ; )

disregard nbsp = a glitch in the program.; 12/13/06, 3:46 PM