Walking In The City

I am still doing a lot of walking around Denver these days, what with the beautiful fall weather. Granted, Denver is no Chicago, but it is a pleasant city, with wonderful Victorian neighborhoods, and a lively downtown, although it did seem like a ghost town during the height of the pandemic. Of course, there has been a rise in crime in the city, especially in the LoDo area. Lately, on weekends, when the bars there close at 2:00 A.M. a lot of the revelers like to take out their guns and shoot up the street. But hey, every city has it's problems, right?

Denver is much different now from when I moved here back in 1981. For one thing, all the rail yards west of downtown have been transformed into parks, expensive condos, and apartment buildings. Plus, there are new pedestrian bridges over the Platte River and I-25, leading to the Lower Highlands (LoHi), which has become a very hip and popular neighborhood as a result. However, I strongly recommend staying out of the Platte River, which many residents like to wade in on hot summer days, despite my many warnings. It is a breeding ground for E. coli, and what with industrial plants dumping tons of pollutants into it over the years, the odds are you will immediately dissolve upon touching the water.