Gearing Up For The Urban Adventure (Thank You Lupa!)

[Mistwalker]

Finding out that the electric power board no longer has Saturday hours, not finding the books I was looking for down town, and seeing very few people out... I headed back to the shuttle terminal and back to the north shore to a more expensive book store over there...and a walk through the renaissance park. No joy at that bookstore either...but I did find some irony in the renaissance park...a new construction project.


These are a shots of town looking back across the river. Watching and listening to all of the Gulls reminded me of the coast.

This is the construction project in the middle of the park.

This is what that site looked like last year. To the right in this picture.

and to the left in this one....

It is also an area that was being used to camp in by homeless people.

Now, being as this park is being enveloped in "urban renewal" projects and expensive condominiums I understand their desire to make the park safer and more appealing to draw people into those new businesses and expensive condos. BUT, I couldn't help but be stricken by the irony of cutting down a huge patch of woods in order to put up a modern sculpture entitled.....

 

[Mistwalker]

At this point, other than the five minute ride across the river, I had had the pack on for about four hours. I found it very comfortable to wear and hadn't even reached the point where I wanted to change shoulders for a while. However my face and hands were starting to get a bit cold so I went to stone cup for a bowl of their AWESOME white bean chicken chili and a sandwich. I would never have tried this with any of my larger "survival" knives.

I didn't really do anything else with the HEST yesterday because the goal was to walk as much as possible with the pack on to check it for comfort. It got an A+ from me. I have to go back tomorrow morning anyway to pay a bill...well I could do it other ways but it's my excuse...so maybe I'll get to spend more time trying out the knife...maybe I'll find a Pepsi can and make a stove or something.