Back in the old hometown, always an interesting experience. I left here permanently 12 years ago, and my visits have gotten shorter and less frequent every year, though I try to maintain my friendships here. It’s not easy.
Particularly not easy is being back in town without a car. “Downtown” Sacramento – by which I mean the core of the city, a radius of a few miles from the center – is wonderfully bike-able. Most of my closest friends live within this core, and as an avid cyclist, I am able to do nearly everything I need to do…as long as I don’t need to carry much!
Though I was born in the suburbs, which I loathed, I moved downtown to the core as soon as I was able and wasn’t working in the suburbs, at the old Tower Records (the first free-standing Tower in the world) on Watt Avenue. Once that tether was shed, in late 1980, I moved downtown, and mostly lived around the central core from then until I left town for New York City in April…
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