Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
yeah, the disjointedness/disconnectivity of suburbia can be ridiculous at times.
my sister's family lives up in suburban lake county, illinois. there's a liquor store literally 1/4 mile from her house as the crow flies, but to to walk there is nearly 1.5 miles because there's no pedestrian connection out of their closed off subdivision to the the main road where the liquor store is....but you can't get there from here.
I stayed in a motel in central Missouri on a bike tour a few years ago. It was right on an Interstate-type highway. I could SEE a shopping center on the other side of the highway and wanted to walk there to take a break from the bike. Like you, it was 1/4 mile away tops. I walked and walked and walked to find a way across that big highway. Probably took a hour each way. Sheesh. Could have been there in a car in 3 minutes.