18th October, 2011
I went to Minneapolis today to buy bus tickets for my upcoming trips to St. John's University and Madison, WI. They have a really old-fashioned way of doing things in the Greyhound station. They recently got ticket machines but they don't work so well. Even the ATM looks like something from the 80s. You have to enter your name when you make a reservation using their machines. I have to arrive at the station 30 mins. early for them to put tags on my bag. It's not like I am going on a flight. I can put the bags on the bus myself. But you need to have official tags with your name on them. The ticket prices are also outrageous. It is often cheaper to fly. The greyhound to Madison was $61 (and it's only about 6 hrs). You would think that America's free market would come up with something better than this.
After about 3 weeks in Minneapolis, I have now seen almost everything so today I decided to go back and see things that I saw before. The last time I went to the Basilica, the main church was closed so I wandered in for a look today. It used to be called the Co-Cathedral. The building was designed by Bishop John Ireland (who designed the Cathedral in St. Paul). It is an impressive building. Like St. Paul's Cathedral, it is in a strange position as it is a good bit away from the city center.
Afterwards I went down to the Sculpture park again (the place with the cherry on a spoon). I had seen most of the sculptures already but it was a bit brighter today. They did have a conservatory with a sculpture of a fish by Frank Gehry (who designed the Gugenheim in Bilbao). The warm of the conservatory was very welcome after walking in the cold.
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