http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe Above, around, and below the City of Light Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:07:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We'd had a fast and furious two weeks, and were dead exhausted. Still, since we had a few days left before we had to head back home, and I'm always up for seeing a new town, we decided to hit Amsterdam. Where better to relax and wind down for a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/epilogue.html Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are copyright of my friend, travel partner, and fellow guerilla urbanist Steve Duncan. Steve is a wonderful photographer, and specializes in underground and urban photography. Prints are available - visit his website at http://www.undercity.org One of the most interesting things about this trip was getting to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/layers-part-i.html Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are copyright of my friend, travel partner, and fellow guerilla urbanist Steve Duncan. Steve is a wonderful photographer, and specializes in underground and urban photography. Prints are available - visit his website at http://www.undercity.org   We took one more quick trip with David into the Catacombs.   There's ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/the-queens-chamberpot.html Paris is a small city - at a brisk pace you can walk across it in less than three hours. And Paris also doesn't have a great deal of geographical or structural diversity - for the most part, a block on the north side of town is going to look ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/walking-in-the-banlieues-squatting-in-paname.html We were a little Catacombed-out after our 30-hour marathon trip. Still, that didn't mean we weren't still up for seeing more of the hidden side of town. Steve wanted to visit the sewers before we left (there's actually an official sewer tour that's offered, but he'd already taken that and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/the-bastille-and-the-bell-tower.html Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are copyright of my friend, travel partner, and fellow guerilla urbanist Steve Duncan. Steve is a wonderful photographer, and specializes in underground and urban photography. Prints are available - visit his website at http://www.undercity.org Despite tossing and turning all night, we woke up later than we ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/30-hours-under-paris-part-2.html Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are copyright of my friend, travel partner, and fellow guerilla urbanist Steve Duncan. Steve is a wonderful photographer, and specializes in underground and urban photography. Prints are available - visit his website at http://www.undercity.org The more we saw of the catacombs, the more we wanted to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/30-hours-under-paris.html One of the current cause celebes of the Downtown Brie and Chablis set is the High Line. Abandoned since 1980, this former rail line runs about a mile and a half down the West Side of Manhattan, and currently enjoys a quiet life about 20 feet above the streets a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/whats-the-appeal-of-abandoned-railroad-tracks-anyway.html What I really wanted to do was crawl up out of the abandoned railroad tracks after 12 hours in the catas, hail the nearest cab, and say "To the Louvre!" Unfortunately, I was so dirty that no cab would stop for me, so I had to take the subway instead. This ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/high-art.html Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are copyright of my friend, travel partner, and fellow guerilla urbanist Steve Duncan. Steve is a wonderful photographer, and specializes in underground and urban photography. Prints are available - visit his website at http://www.undercity.org One of the most interesting and rewarding experiences of visiting publicly ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Moe/high-art-low-art.html