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Old 07-21-2022, 04:40 PM
 
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Dang, I didn't realize how long those Live on Patrol videos were. Any specific numbers you'd recommend?
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Old 07-21-2022, 06:05 PM
 
Location: Park Rapids
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Enjoy the time you're in Highland Park there. It's really a nice area to live. I am quite sure you're wife will want to avoid 55 at all costs. It's nuts at any point in the day, light to light with heavy traffic. When you do need to transit across into that area, use Minnehaha as it's parallel and can get you almost to the point where it becomes highway. There is a smaller CUB foods grocery store at 46th and Snelling (almost 55) which will do in a pinch. Better than Lunds & Byerlys that is right there in your neighborhood. I recommend Von Hanson's Meats across the Parkway, unless of course you have vegetarian tendencies. Petco by you is great for all your kitties needs.
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Old 07-21-2022, 06:15 PM
 
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Yeah, we're actually now starting to talk about her biking to work. One of her would-be colleagues is leaving the University (and is moving out of 740 River, incidentally) and selling her bike, so that becomes another option for her. How bike-friendly is the public transport system in case, say, she bikes to work but the weather goes bad in the afternoon?
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Old 07-21-2022, 08:03 PM
 
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Yeah, we're actually now starting to talk about her biking to work. One of her would-be colleagues is leaving the University (and is moving out of 740 River, incidentally) and selling her bike, so that becomes another option for her. How bike-friendly is the public transport system in case, say, she bikes to work but the weather goes bad in the afternoon?
You can put bikes on the front of buses, no clue about light rail?

I don’t have any specific live on patrol episodes to recommend. Better to watch one of the daytime ones.
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Old 07-21-2022, 08:31 PM
 
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I googled it - apparently there are bike racks inside the light rail cars, as well. Good to know.
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Old 07-23-2022, 02:55 PM
 
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I googled it - apparently there are bike racks inside the light rail cars, as well. Good to know.

There are on the Green Line for sure - I ride that one on occasion in the winter when it looks like traffic will be a mess (light rail is rock solid on schedule, sunny summer day or winter blizzard ... unless a driver temps fate and loses the attempt to cross in front of a moving train or simply ram the side of one (seen that happen).


For the train, you stand your bike on one tire and snap it into the rack inside the car right by the doors.
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Old 07-23-2022, 06:16 PM
 
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Are there any park&ride lots we could use to avoid parking on campus? That's the one thing I haven't been able to figure out.
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Old 07-23-2022, 10:38 PM
 
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Nice pick on the Highland Park finding a place. The drive to the U for your wife is the most ideal anyone could ever have, one simple road follows the river with million dollar homes and tons of people walking/running/biking. Highland Park is a nice area. My company used to take care of the lawn and snow of Highland Animal Hospital. Cecil’s is a great old school deli. A guy I went to high school with own’s Tiffany’s sports bar.

tiffany's. there's a stroll down memory lane.
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Old 07-24-2022, 07:06 AM
 
Location: MN
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tiffany's. there's a stroll down memory lane.
The dad started it and his 3 kids worked there, then for some odd reason sold it to only one of them. The other two went down Lexington Ave and bought Gabe’s By the Park about 5 or so years ago.
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Old 07-24-2022, 11:10 AM
 
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So, ironically, after saying we wouldn't come out to MN until the day of the move, we did decide to make a trip, after all - to drop a bunch of boxes in my wife's colleague's garage and to make a completely unrelated but necessary pit stop in Chicago. When we were moving from IL to MI in July of last year, Hertz was nearly giving away one-way cargo van rentals. This time I can't even find a single company locally that would rent one (for any less than $700). So, a "Dodge Caravan or similar" from Avis it is, then. At least the ride will be more comfortable, but at 140 cubic feet we're going to be pretty limited in what comes with us...
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