Watch Me Mail My Taxes!
As you may or may not know, in January we moved out of San Francisco and bought a house in Albany, California—a small town carved out of the north end of Berkeley in the East Bay. (Translation for the New Yorkers: it’s sort of like going from Manhattan to Brooklyn—maybe Park Slope or Cobble Hill.) I have now achieved that most American of dreams: massive mortgage debt!
So, join me now on a walk to the Albany Post Office to mail my taxes. There will be sidewalks, train tracks, plants and more!
As a bonus you’ll get an assortment of FUN facts about my new town! Impress your friends and co-workers at your next cocktail party when you work the official town motto of Albany into the conversation.
Also, I didn’t skimp on the coverage. You’ll get THIRTEEN action packed minutes of walking… and… er… talking!
Act now!
(Or when you have some time to kill.)
XXOO
- peebo
ps - Since I know nothing about video compression, this is a pretty massive file (36 Megs). If you have trouble viewing it in your browser you might try downloading the video by clicking this link and then opening it.
Enjoy.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
That was fun. Good editing. More walking tours!
I’m not so sure that you’re living in a small town compared w/ your friends. By my math (based on Wikipedia’s figures), Albany’s population density is nearly 10,000 people per square mile (Albany’s land area is only 1.7 sq mi; the rest — 3.8 sq mi — is water). Little Rock metropolitan area density is under 200 people per sq mi, & city limits is under 2000. So Albany is more than 5 times more urban the Little Rock.