Walking in Indianapolis
Posted on February 24, 2010 - Filed Under Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Leisure, Travel
A walking tour of a new city is one of the best ways to get to know it. You start out in the morning, leaving your luxury hotel in Indianapolis, and there’s time, there’s a lot of time to do the things you promised yourself. When it’s just you alone in the city, there’s no one between you and the experience you’re having. You get used to traveling with people, so you have to put something between yourself and the moment, so you usually fill it up with all of your contexts. Getting to know a city is a way to get to know your own contexts.
You might start out by looking at the windows of coffee shops, to see what windows remind you of other places you’ve been. When you get comfortable, you might start to look in the windows, and eventually this will lead to choosing one. It might be the one that you love the most from your own city, or from another city you’ve been where you had a nice time and felt like you were able to relax. You’re in the cafe, then, and you decide to have what you usually do, except a little bit better, perhaps, and perhaps something sweet to eat, just because it’s a special occasion.
Already, by this time, you’ve begun to see faces in the city, and there’s a peculiar thing that happens in the new city. At first, you see people you think you know, but then after awhile you see people that resemble the people you know. The resemblances are not as coincidental or random as you might hope, and there’s an uncanny sense that these people are alternative versions of the people you know. While you’re having your coffee and someone is telling you about another coffee shop down the street that has art, you’re thinking that every city has alternative versions of your own life. As if you’re telling yourself that this is the life you would have here if you lived here. It’s making sense in a way that’s uncomfortable, because you suddenly realize that you’re plotting your next move in the world, and it might be here.
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