The Wells Fargo Center in downtown Minneapolis on a foggy January evening.

View of downtown Cincinnati from the river road.

On a trip out east this week, I managed to get some time in downtown Cincinnati on the way to the hotel. Actually quite a picturesque. Reminds me of Minneapolis. This is the Proctor and Gamble building.

Us Twin Citiens seem to have a fascination with the Foshay Tower. Walking around downtown Minneapolis the other day, gray and dreary skies, I looked up and saw yet another view of the Foshay Tower I hadn’t seen before.

The headquarters of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Chemistry…ahh the pain comes back. One of my worst courses ever. I just didn’t care (and still don’t) for things you can’t stretch, bend, and make into machines that spin real fast like turbine engines. Classes at 8:30 AM are only for those disciplined enough to actually get up no matter what they did the night before.

The colorful billboard in front of the bland building is befitting to the atmosphere found on University campuses, young minds briefly whirling through a staunch institution.

This is the cathedral (or ‘Dom’ in german) located in the old section of Mainz, Germany, near the Rhine river. The Mainzer Dom was built over 1,000 years ago, and expanded througout the centuries to become what it is today. Mainz was heavily bombed during WW2 with over 80% of the city destroyed, and the Dom suffered some collateral damage, but was repaired. Fortunately the allies avoided the direct bombing of historic structures, a common practice by civilized nations even in times of war . Contrast that to the Taliban, who purposely blew up the two largest Buddhist statues in the world, over 1,500 years old, when they came to power. Nough said.