More time on planes after a short visit to Minneapolis.

The Twin Cities are beautiful. So much to please the eye in both the natural and the built environments. Minneapolis is a great place for walking and biking, and there are so many good places to find good food and to visit.

It’s hard to forget that Minneapolis has been through some hard times recently. I love this place, I love the people. And I hope for better days ahead.

A watercolor sketch depicts a street scene in Minneapolis with a tall building, a traffic light, and cars, accompanied by handwritten notes reflecting on the changes in the neighborhood.A handwritten note describes a walk from a hotel near the Target Center to a Hmong restaurant called Diane’s Place, passing through a neighborhood once home to several breweries, reflecting on the old and new buildings of Minneapolis and the writer's preference for sketching the older ones.A historic brick building with a tall smokestack stands at the corner of a street intersection marked by traffic lights and a NE Broadway St sign under a cloudy sky.