Honest to Goodness Seattle See It All Guide for Residents and Visitors Alike: Burke Gilman Extension, Bop Street Records, Golden Gardens

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Wednesday
July 20, 2005
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	Out of town visitors offer fresh eyes on familiar sights. Dan & Julie are visiting from Prague. Dan is Czech. He and I met through Carbusters and Prague Critical Mass. Julie is from Ballard but now she lives over there. Dan's a Prague city councilman who lobbies hard for cyclists' rights and works developing European greenways. As luck would have it, the Burke-Gilman extension opened recently and so the three of us all had our first ride on it. (The dedication ceremony in Monday July 25 at 6:30 pm.)
		After a trip to Golden Gardens, we stopped in at Bop Street Records. How had I never visited there before? It's a vinyl junkie's dream. Although the prices are a bit high, I was able to negotiate 50% off an old Morse Code how-to LP. It's all short and long tones, no speaking whatsoever; the strangest record in my collection. Dit, dah, dit dit dah... Morse Code is the first form of binary telecommunication, a descendent of which this webpage is....