Today will get no prizes for efficiency. The sun was out, I didn’t have any client commitments, and it feels like ages since I got in a good bike ride. I had a productive morning and when lunch time came around I tromped merrily to my bike, ready to go look at some property.
I’m officially convinced that my front tire is cursed. I thought it was fixed. The very friendly folk at the bike shop assured me that everything was fine and diagnosed my series of flats as “bad luck.” It must be very persistent bad luck because it struck again! So, no bike ride for me.
But the sun was still out, I still had a few hours I could comfortably spare, and there was still property I wanted to tour. So I changed plans, hopped on the bus, and set off.
My original plan had been to take a look at properties in Laurelhurst and Ravenna. The new plan required me to scale back and I only made it to Ravenna. Bus service through those areas is not awesome in the middle of the day, and my feet are only so fleet. I only made it to half the properties I wanted to.
I’m not going to put this one in the fail column, though. I didn’t realize it until today, but I’ve never walked up 55th through Ravenna. You get a different feel for a commercial street on foot than you do driving, and I’d been missing that for this neighborhood. So I may have seen less of what’s on the market, but I got a better feel for a neighborhood and that, especially in a market moving as quickly as this one, has much more value.
Also, I may or may not have spent some time at the Queen Mary Tea room. If I did, it was entirely because I am that dedicated to knowing the gritty details of neighborhoods.
Location: Ravenna
Time: 2.5 hr
Transit modes: Feet, Bus
Cost: 2.50
Cats petted: 0
Tea consumed: Queen Mary Tea Room
Properties Viewed: 3