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Jul. 12th, 2011 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupI think today is the day I explore the Pedway.
Chicago has this thing, the Pedway, which is a loose network of underground tunnels, ground-level shopping areas, and SKY BRIDGES, which meander their way through downtown, covering something like 44 blocks in all. I've explored the northernmost branch, alias The Top Secret Food Court, and I've used the tunnel between the Red and Blue Jackson lines, but the vast majority of it is a mystery. I guess longtime commuters know a lot about it, particularly those who ride the Metra, but to us immigrants it's an inaccessible underground world only heard of in whispers and dreams.
I'm dead serious. It's like an urban legend, or Narnia. The one time I found an entrance to the Pedway Underground, it was locked. Aslan's pissed at me. (That's okay, he's on my shit list too.)
So today, today is the day I break through. I've consulted the great oracle of the internet and I think I have at least two points of access marked on my map. I'm going to see the Pedway or get very tired trying.
I have a St. Christopher's medal on a chain, which I recently augmented with a TARDIS key. I have a compass, digital camera, gum, and a smartphone. I think I'm set for anything short of a dragon.
If I don't post amusingly by eight thirty tonight, send help. Wait, no, don't send help, it'll just get eaten too.
Chicago has this thing, the Pedway, which is a loose network of underground tunnels, ground-level shopping areas, and SKY BRIDGES, which meander their way through downtown, covering something like 44 blocks in all. I've explored the northernmost branch, alias The Top Secret Food Court, and I've used the tunnel between the Red and Blue Jackson lines, but the vast majority of it is a mystery. I guess longtime commuters know a lot about it, particularly those who ride the Metra, but to us immigrants it's an inaccessible underground world only heard of in whispers and dreams.
I'm dead serious. It's like an urban legend, or Narnia. The one time I found an entrance to the Pedway Underground, it was locked. Aslan's pissed at me. (That's okay, he's on my shit list too.)
So today, today is the day I break through. I've consulted the great oracle of the internet and I think I have at least two points of access marked on my map. I'm going to see the Pedway or get very tired trying.
I have a St. Christopher's medal on a chain, which I recently augmented with a TARDIS key. I have a compass, digital camera, gum, and a smartphone. I think I'm set for anything short of a dragon.
If I don't post amusingly by eight thirty tonight, send help. Wait, no, don't send help, it'll just get eaten too.
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