In my whistle-stop town outside of Chicago, pretty much everything is walkable, (except for the movies since the old theater got taken over by a lily pulitzer. ugh.) a very welcome arrangement after four years of pedaling and walking around Georgetown, where everything is eminently walkable, if not affordable. A great movie catalog endowed by the funds to save and renovate the now pulitzer-ed theater - and that's a lot of movies, folks - and free cds make the public library an especially tempting walk. Today when I went to trade in After the Thin Man for Before Sunset, the following cars were parked outside: three minivans, two Porsches, and one crank-shaft Model-T. Quite the sight to say the least.
