Early fall NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FIVE MONTHS LATER. We had dropped our rental car in IA this AM but we were hoping for more work so we were kind of hanging around. This walk was in the late AM. We've walked this park many times in the last 10 years and do not remember anything specific about today's walk. When we were done walking we went to the Petro here in Albert Lea for lunch, before killing more time and finally heading home after still getting no work.

'Side wing of mall' NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP FIVE MONTHS LATER. We had delivered in California and were waiting for work. We'd gotten a late checkout so this picture was from mid afternoon on a weekday. This mall is laid out differently. Both because you walk past outdoor stores before getting to the entrance and because all stores do not have an exterior wall. Looking at a map, as many as a third are in two interior groups. It looks like the mall had as many as 5 ancho

Two story mall. NOTE: THIS IS BEING WRITTEN UP SIX MONTHS LATER. We had dropped one RV in Rockford first thing this AM. No other work lined up so we stopped where and went for a walk. I don't see any people in the picture. The mall opened at 10 AM and it was just a little after that on a weekday when the picture was taken. The mall is listed as having 140 stores. I don't remember it being a ghost mall but not sure the percentage of vacancy. The mall still has a Penny's and Ma

Looking north. We're back. This picture is taken right across the street from the ABAB that we stayed at a few months ago. I had just...

From the lower level. Work has been slow so we have been mostly home and the fires in Canada are making the air quality so bad that no...

1 of 3 elephants. NOT an easy walk. Lots of elevation change. And the zoo is not free. We came with two other couples and one of them...

A lot of sitting, watch at this park. This is a park. Plenty of flat space to walk, for a price. We where there mid-week before summer...

When the big male comes in, the smaller male leaves. We were looking for a place to see sea lions and this was the closest. It is a park,...

Our airBNB is somewhere mid-shoreline on this picture. There is a sign on at least one end of this trail but we never walked to that end....

Downtown San Diego Spanish Landing is across the street from the San Diego airport. Today we were using it as a cell phone lot. We had an...

Storm damaged stairs along trail. We have been to this park before, but have always come in from the other direction and didn't remember...

(I forgot to take a picture on this walk so the above picture is a place holder) It has been months since we have walked anywhere but...

Taken near the north parking lot at the start of the trail. This is a free park, it is not part of any park system, national, state or...

Afton Alps Ski are in the distance. Once we are at the park we realize it may have been years since we were here last and it is only a...

Lopez Ridge Park entrance sign. Original plan had been to drive to a beach somewhere. But by the time we got going, the maps all showed...

Really not much of a walk here. We had just spent most of two hours walking the National Cemetery next door and mainly stopped here to...

Food vendors We were on our way back from making a drop in ND and had all day to get home from here so e decided to do a walk before we...

From in front of Macy's looking east. I don't remember the numbers but this mall has been pretty much able to keep pace with the MOA. It...

East end, from in front of 'Sears.' Picture taken 1/19/25 After not being at this mall for five plus years, we were back twice within...

Recent map for Maplewood Mall Now that we are back to walking malls, we are going to be hitting a few of them. This is the closest one to...