2008-08-17 - 2008-08-18, Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis is a strange place, and I am not referring to the friend I was visiting. The place has big buildings and a commercially active downtown; however, you always have the feeling that the city's deserted. Traffic is light and pedestrians are almost non-existent. Its almost as if the space of a metropolis only has the population of a farming village.

Apart from this detail, Minneapolis is a beautiful city with a decent skyline. Nightlife in downtown is almost full of gay bars but there is a lot of dining options in downtown. Like many cities in the US now, the heart of the population has moved away from the downtown area into satellite cities and suburbs.

St. Paul - its sister city on the other hand seems to have retained a little historical charm along with some greenery and nature trails to more than make up Minneapolis's apparent desolation. St. Paul seems like it is bustling with people - a great feeling when you go into a city.