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Casual observations
May. 3rd, 2006 09:07 amThere's one thing I love most about my drive to work, and that's the stretch of Golf Road just before I turn into my office complex.
Golf Road is one of the three main North Suburban streets that will get you anywhere you need to go*, as long as where you need to go is either east or west. As such, I can simply take it straight to work. And while there may be a few sections of it that cause me no end of grief, I'm generally pretty pleased with it.
The main thing about Golf is that, as a busy main street, it passes through most of both the residential and commercial districts of the major suburbs. And the transitions are fairly steady; Las, in her adorable wonder, kept commenting on how "the buildings just keep going".
But there's this one stretch, right between Rolling Meadows and Schaumburg, where you pass under a bridge, and all of a sudden, it's countryside. Grassy meadows, trees, rivers, and not a trace of civilization, aside from a few average-sized but ginormous grounds office buildings. You're driving, and there's just the buildings to the north, and nothing to the south. Absolutely gorgeous in the early morning.
And then you pass underneath another bridge, and it's right back to heavy commercial area. There's not even a sign that such an emptiness existed, even if you turn your head and look backwards. You cannot see the scenery change past the bridges; you can only see it when you pass under them. They are gateways to another world.
* - Golf, Dempster, and Touhy. Touhy has been described by Rowan as the TARDIS of the northern Chicago region.
Golf Road is one of the three main North Suburban streets that will get you anywhere you need to go*, as long as where you need to go is either east or west. As such, I can simply take it straight to work. And while there may be a few sections of it that cause me no end of grief, I'm generally pretty pleased with it.
The main thing about Golf is that, as a busy main street, it passes through most of both the residential and commercial districts of the major suburbs. And the transitions are fairly steady; Las, in her adorable wonder, kept commenting on how "the buildings just keep going".
But there's this one stretch, right between Rolling Meadows and Schaumburg, where you pass under a bridge, and all of a sudden, it's countryside. Grassy meadows, trees, rivers, and not a trace of civilization, aside from a few average-sized but ginormous grounds office buildings. You're driving, and there's just the buildings to the north, and nothing to the south. Absolutely gorgeous in the early morning.
And then you pass underneath another bridge, and it's right back to heavy commercial area. There's not even a sign that such an emptiness existed, even if you turn your head and look backwards. You cannot see the scenery change past the bridges; you can only see it when you pass under them. They are gateways to another world.
* - Golf, Dempster, and Touhy. Touhy has been described by Rowan as the TARDIS of the northern Chicago region.
