A Des Moines City Brief - 7/12

Written on the beautiful morning of thursday 7/12:


Yeah so the sunrise was really incredible today in Des Moines. We drove all night from Minneapolis, which was an awesome city, but we had no place to stay, the spot we planned fell through because we miscommunicated among ourselves on the dates. We're now in Omaha, but the travel brought us through Des Moines, which has some really interesting architecture, much of it seems very new. Minneapolis actually as well seemed to be developing all these new contemporary styled condos with cables, stained wood, and metal panels. Des Moines though was sort of a strange city, in fact I'm discovering that most cities are. It seems cleaner than Omaha, but just laid our flat, like a peddler laying out his wares on the streets. So many of the buildings have this great new feel to them, even if there are sort of modernist from the 1960's, and the whole vernacular of the cityt seems to fit together, though in a bizzare eclectic way for sure. I experienced next to no life there, but the built environment and the sky really spoke to me and it was beautiful.