Friday, September 19, 2008
National PARK(ing) Day
I like to take my camera with me all over the place. It’s inevitable, though, that the day I forget, something like National PARK(ing) Day happens. I was casually riding my bike home from school after a meeting with my mentee when I rode past the scene pictured above. People were hanging out, listening to music, soaking their feet in the wading pool, and generally enjoying the strip of asphalt that would otherwise be used to store someone’s car.
BikeSnob described the event the best: “Basically, what [the event] meant was a bunch of people in different cities took over parking spaces and turned them into little temporary parks. (Or, more accurately, just did weird stuff in them.) The idea as I understand it was to help people imagine all the other things you can do on the side of the road besides just leaving cars there, and how much better the world would be if the streets were lined with freaks instead of Hondas.”
Note to self: Pack camera in bag for capturing more freaks not Hondas.
