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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alternate view of Bond, Bailey & Smith

A photo of a small brick machine shop with a painted yellow sign across its facade over a front garage door that reads "Bond, Bailey & Smith". The shop is cluttered with equipment, only some of which is visible through the front swing doors. A silver Lincoln Town car is parked out front.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was at least 5 words into this and still thought maybe we were taking about power lines

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watched some young rockers at Reggies today.

A keyboardist a guitarist and half a singer are distantly visible on stage. We're watching from the balcony, above. On the right, a sticker of a skeleton looks off to the right of the image.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Roughly where is this? Hope you weren’t caught in the biblical level downpour that occurred today.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am 99.9% sure I walked past you as you were taking this shot. (I live around the corner and was returning from grocery shopping.) wasn’t 100% and felt silly if I was wrong. Next time I’ll say hi 👋!

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aows @aows.co · 13/07/2026

Mountains of Asturias, II. June 2026 #aowsimages #blackandwhite #photography

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thanks! Yeah, the Gary Fan Club is smaller than it should be. Same with the Waking-Before-Dawn Fan Club. Poke me if you get there; curious to see your shots!

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thanks! I started with Google Maps. It found bike trails I didn't even know about. Then I edited to make sure I hit towns often enough to refill water and hit state parks for overnight camping. I will say I spent a lot of time on 50 mph roads with no shoulder. Amazing trip but occasionally scary.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 5/5, Segment 2/2: Harvard to Chicago. #cycling #chicago #bikeTooter 406.5 miles later, home at last. (I have gripes with Google Maps. See dirt track photo. Also, it led me via a concrete yard, where a kindly concrete truck ran me off the road and yelled at me.)

This was a segment of the Prairie Trail near Crystal Lake. I had hoped to meet up with @cetan there, but the timing didn’t work out this time. Next time!

Okay this photo STILL makes me mad. This is in the Deer Grove blah-blah-blah forest preserve. I swear there were 20 decision points leading up to this and they all seemed kinda okay, but then I ended up literally picking up my 60 pounds of bike+gear to .. let’s say “portage” it several times. At this point Google Maps really should have said “oh, shoot … what TYPE of bike do you want directions for?” Ahead of me is a muddy, semi-dry creek bed with sticks, and then a fallen tree. I’m god knows where in this stupid presever and just WANT OUT. I anger-biked down the side of Dundee Rd (thrilling and unsafe) for a few miles after this to blow off steam.

A random gyros/burgers/tacos place that I passed on West Belmont. It’s got super saturated red and yellow stripes on the siding. Name is “Mic Duck’s”. Feels like Chicago, without obviously including the Sears Tower.

Which, speaking of, here you go. Obligatory downtown shot, with a graffiti-covered life ring in front of the Chicago River.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 5/5, Segment 1/2: Rockford to Harvard. #cycling #chicago Up at 3am to begin the century ride home. I'd love to do the first part of this again in daylight, but the sunrise was gorgeous too.

Sunset photo at Rock Cut State Park Campgrounds, just northeast of Rockford. This is where I stayed (just 100m to the left) the last night. This photo is taken on an asphalt path, as the path loops out into the distance behind some trees. In front of the nearest tree is a sign reading “Prairie View: Sites 500 - 531”. Behind the trees the sun is setting and the horizon is a beautiful peach shade. Above the sunset part of the sky the rest of the sky is dotted with wispy white/gray clouds.

Sunrise photo taken near Capron on a trail that I think is called the Long Prairie Trail. It runs east-west-ish, through multiple townships and has every surface type you can think of depending on the segment. This portion was two dirt paths, with low tree covering on both sides. The top of the sky is still night, but at the horizon, today’s sun is rising.

This is such a forbidding, weird scene. We’re looking south from Streit Road—which, let’s talk about that first. Is it like “street” (weird and redundant sounding) or “straight” (which is very much is). Across a simple wire fence, we see a well-mown (or well-eaten by cows/goats) grassy area containing a lake that I can only describe as the color/texture of pea soup or maybe a creamy pesto. In it are a half dozen dead trees sticking up. Above them is this crazy chaotic cluster of birds flying in a tornado pattern.

Around this spot, Harvard, I started wondering “are these the last cows I’ll see today?” These weren’t. There were maybe two more fields of livestock. But these were unfearful, friendly cows in a pasture next to the road—maybe 50 of them.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It really does. Fantastic trail.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 4/5, Segment 2/2: Stockton to Roscoe. #cycling #chicago I thought the heat might end my day earlier again, but powered through and am celebrating at a pub with a beer. 95mi to home!

Photo taken off a gravel road outside Lena IL. There’s no street or building or city structures here. It’s a small meadow of tall prairie grass in front of a line of tress. White and purple wild flowers in the foreground. Behind them is a green metal gate (like you’d see to let cattle in/out of an enclosure) with the skull of a horned animal and some kind of hunting vest hung on the gate.

Photo of the Jane Addams Trail. It seems to run from Freeport to the IL-WI state line, but I only took it from Buena Vista to Orangeville. It was unexpected (I didn’t seek it out, but Google Maps took em there) and really pleasant. This stretch is a dirt path through a little canyon cut through stone. This day was super hot again, so this trail and its tree covering were very welcome.

A brick building in Orangeville with the words “CENTRAL HOUSE” on the front. It’s a 3-story brick building with stone “trim” between floors and little arched fanciness above each window. In front of it is a burgundy-colored RAM truck with the word “Faith” on the back driver’s side window.

Photo taken at Colored Sands Bluff Nature Preserve, west of Rockton. Today was crazy hot again for a few hours, though not as bad as yesterday. When I saw that there was a picnic table in the shade with free abundant water to stick my head in, I audibly gasped, “yes. YES!”. I was taking breaks like this for about 10 minutes every half hour during the hottest part of the day.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 4/5, Segment 2/2: Elizabeth to Stockton. #cycling #chicago This was my favorite day. Getting to Iowa was good for the ego. But the area between Galena and Rockford is so beautiful and fun to bike and was good for the soul.

Looking west across US West 20, just west of Elizabeth. We’re looking across the highway, straight at a roadsigns pointing in both directions, as if to say, “Check out this view.” Beyond it, we see a valley filled with fields, trees, and grass. The sky above is lit up with sunrise colors. It’s 6:33am

A large flightlless bird (emu? I’m not sure) has been racing next to me within its enclosure. It is giving me side eye. Although to be fair, I think it is a prey animal whose eyes only look sideways. Its neck is cocked just so. Behind it is a field, some farm structures, and some morning sunrise clouds.

The “BICYCLE MUSEUM” in Elizabeth. I didn’t have time to go in, but it looked adorable It’s in a 2-3 story brick building and appears (by virtue of the wheels visible) to occupy not just the ground floor retail, but also the higher floors.

Looking at a street corner on Front Ave in Stockton. In a beautiful old building with fancy, antique wood interiors is the Copper Leaf Cafe, where I had a hearty and delicious omelette to start the day.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yes! Heat index-wise, it looks 20+ degrees cooler tomorrow, so I think I'll be okay from here out.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 3/5, Segment 2/2: Clinton to Elizabeth #cycling #chicago Morning: Yay, didn't get rained on. I win, weather! Noon: WOW HOT Afternoon: Farmer Steve kindly throws my bike in his pickup and drives me to a motel so I can take a cold shower and recover from insane heat.

Photo of the Thomson Illinois rail museum, taken when I still cared about seeing things, versus just getting through the day alive. It's a cute little red brick building next to the rail tracks coming into town.

One of the MANY spots where I sought refuge from the sun, this is a Lutheran church near Hanover, where some beautiful person put a bench right under a huge shade tree, and put a faucet on the near wall of the church, where I could dowse myself in a gallon of freezing water. The church is a wooden building painted white, with 5 narrow arched windows on our side, and two towers adorned with crosses on the roof.

By mid afternoon, instead of stopping every 10-20 miles, I was stopping every 2-3, then every 1. At some point I threw in the towel and rolled into a gas station nearly dead. This kind soul, a farmer named Steve, recommended a nearby motel and even drove me there. After a cold shower, some A/C, and a lot of water, I was feeling better, but ended my ride 30 miles short of my target.

After a few hours recuperating, I ventured out for a truly great pulled pork sandwich. This was the view on the way back. We're looking across Highway 20, to the south. Rolling hills with a mixture of farms and trees stretch to the horizon, where a low band of billowy clouds is just visible in the distance.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 3/5, Segment 1/2: Morrison to Clinton. #cycling #chicago Last night's camp was super close to the Mississippi, so I finished my first half of the journey on the Fulton side, then popped over to an adorable bike shop in Clinton IA for spare tubes.

A foggy morning scene. I'm on the left side of a road, looking past a pair of mailboxes, across a grassy lawn, toward some white and red barns in the distance that are blurred by the fog.

Selfie taken in Fulton, IL, looking out across the Mississippi at Clinton IA. In the right side, you can see the bridge I'm about to take. If you could smell my clothes in this picture (after a few very hard days of riding), ... well, fortunately you can't.

Photo taken entering Clinton, Iowa in the pedestrian lane of the Gateway Bridge, which carries US Rte 30. A big sign over the roadway says "Welcome to Iowa. Clinton. On the Mississippi".

Chad Jensen's "The Bicycle Station & Jensen Oil Company". Former gas station and auto parts shop turned bike shop. My bike is leaned up under an awning, hiding from the sprinkles.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 2/5, Segment 2/2: Ashton to Morrrison. #cycling #chicago Nothing like rolling into camp with a feels like of 110 🫠 Made it through the night, though, and got a good shower in. Met some friendly campers at the Morrison Rockwood State Park Campgrounds

Sterling Illinois. It's hot. I'm leaned up next to a tax prep office with enough awning to give me respite from the sun. My legs protrude into the scene, looking collapsed, and shoes splayed wide. In front of us is an asphalt parking lot and then a street with a gray SUV passing. More strip malls are positioned across the street.

Another shot from Sterling, Illinois. I'll let all the architecture nerds chime in (hopefully!) with style and notable features of this building. It's mostly white brick or stone with a greenish copper terraced dome atop.

Another shot from sterling. This shows a mural on the side of a brick building depicting some of the history of Sterling, in the form of the Sterling Hydraulic Company, and a man on a wagon being pulled by two white steeds.

My camp night for the second night. This time I'm in a legit spot in Morrison Rockland State Park. My bike is covered up with a tarp because of threatened thunderstorms overnight.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 2/5, Segment 1/2: DeKalb to Ashton. #cycling #chicago Frustrating day with bike issues, but lot of friendly people, great weather, and quiet, dusty roads.

My first camp site, and my only stealth camping that isn't in a state park or hipcamp. Cornfield on the right, tree line on the left, narrow stretch of wild grass in the middle. you an just make out my bike in the trees. My tent is badly pitched, with the poles rotated 180 degree from how they're supposed to be.

Photo taken in a little town just west of DeKalb. We're looking across the street I'm biking on, at a small one story brick building with a marquee of sorts and all-caps letters that say "CHICKEN"

I tried to befriend some horses in a field, near Rochelle. The one in front center is backing up slowly and has orange boots on. In a cute display of nurturing, it backed right up into the "arms" of the white speckled one in the back, like a shy kid standing on his parent's shoes and burying his face in their pants.

In this photo, outside of Ashton, Illnois, I'm on a yellow-ish dirt/gravel road, pulled over to the left side. Across some grass is a low leafy crop (maybe soybeans). Beyond them, a green house with white trim is nestled into some large, mature trees.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m jealous. That section of the Great Western Trail is 10/10. Gorgeous.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 1/5, Segment 2/2: Wheaton to Sycamore. #cycling #chicago

Photo taken across a grassy lawn at some grain silos and grain elevators arranged into a cluster in the center of the image. This is, I think, on the outskirts of Sycamore, or else on a town just east of there.

A pair on a motorcycle passes in front of me as I take a photo across the street of the St. Charles Municipal Center, which has an ornate dome on top of a 2 story brick/concrete building.

A wooden Victorian residence in Sycamore, IL. It's painted pale green, and has white trim. In the yard is a giant hydrangea plant that sure looks a lot healthier than the one I have at home.

Shot looking down a wooden plank bridge on the Illinois Prairie Path, in the Oak Hill Cemetery, in Geneva, Illinois. There's a sign imploring cyclists to walk their bikes because of wavy lines.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 1/5, Segment 1/2: Lake Michigan to Wheaton. #cycling #chicago

Selfie taken at Diversey Harbon. I'm a 40s white guy with a t shirt and a bike helmet. My bike is behind me: a silver touring bike with a sleeping back strapped to the handle bars, two water bottles, and some panniers and a tent on back. In background is Chicago's skyline looking down at Streeterville / River North, where the Hancock Tower is.

Selfie taken under the L tracks on Lake Street. I'm in the foreground on the left, holding the camera. Above me are the yellow/brown support beams of the L overhead. Behind me the road and L extend to the vanishing point. A few cars are visible in the distance.

My bike in a verdant side yard. Behind it is the brick wall of a 2-story residence, but on the side is a faded painted sign/mural that you can't quite make out.

A shot taken while biking the Great Western trail, which begins in St. Charles IL (just across the Fox River from the near western suburbs of Chicago) and heading WNW to Sycamore IL. In this segment, it's a crushed gravel/limestone path with a tree line on either side, and power lines behind/above the trees.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Man this was a gorgeous video. I'm headed out on a bikepacking trip next week myself (assuming air is nontoxic 😶‍🌫️ by then) and am getting excited :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGUn...

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The Perfect Midwest Bikepacking Route

YouTube video by Leigh Foster

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Another horizontally-motion-blurred sunrise shot from my last long ride (8-10 days ago, in NW Indiana). #cycling #photography

Landscape photography. Looking down an accrss road next to some high-voltage pylons receding into the distance. In the foreground is the shoulder of the road I'm biking on. In the midground, the grass is a really pretty dark, saturated, blurred shade of forest green. Some darker trees dot the horizon. Behind them, a layer of pink/peach clouds hug the horizon. Above them, the sky is somewhere between twilight and the full blue of morning.

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

See the beauty in everything

View onto the colorful lights of Belmont Ave in Chicago through train window raindrops

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This tshirt is badass and I’m tempted to get one.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Chicago people: if you're looking for something to do Sunday afternoon, some friends and I are playing a show at 2pm. Mostly 90's and 00's rock. Family friendly. Should be a blast 😎 bookclubchi.com/event/megada...

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Megadad + Davey Allen | BOOKCLUB

This gig is conditionally all-ages; fans 16-and-under must be accompanied by a parent/guardian at least 30 years old; parents/guardians need not purchase a ticket; fans 17+ may attend unaccompanied.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Sometimes I’ve done from a car, but this batch was biking one handed and shooting mostly blindly to the right side of the road.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My motion-blurred shots get few likes, but I continue to love them. They're like half-forgotten memories, details abstracted away. Like a perfect teenage breakup song--mostly formulaic but with that one key detail that hooks you and lets you project onto it YOUR most memorable teenage breakup.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Gary homes in motion (shot from the hip on Central Ave east of Gary's downtown yesterday). #indiana #photography

Color photo of a u-haul shop, white, with a thin red stripe on the roof, sitting in a green lawn, with an interesting-looking green light

Photo of the back of 4 single-family homes taken from the back. Each has a fairly large yard, with a portion of it fenced off. Behind the houses are trees, and behind that there is a thin strip of pinkish clouds in the morning light.

Color photo of the front of a home, with the sun rising behind it. In front is a parked black long 80s/90s-style car, and in the extreme foreground a black garbage bin is motion-blurred into near oblivion.

Bottom third of photo: a blur of grass. Middle third: a wooden fence occluding the back of 2-3 homes. Peeking over the fences: the tops of single family homes and their roofs. A few large green trees poke out of the top of frame. Behind, you can see the same thin pink strip of early-morning clouds.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I woke up at 1:30am for a century ride out to Chesterton, IN (stopping for breakfast at Cherries & Berries). Here's a batch of 4 "first light" shots from the road next to Gary Airport, between East Chicago and Gary. #indiana #cycling #photography #NightPhotography

Color photo taken at twilight, showing a building at the horizon, with some construction/industrial equipment poking above the horizon and shown in silhouette against the sky.

Color photo taken at twilight showing some wild grasses in the foreground, a small lake behind it, and the back edge of the lake mirroring the line of trees above it.

Color photo taken at twilight, looking diagonally across a road and into some wetlands. On the far side of the road, a lone street lamp illuminates a smaller sign next to it, but not much else. Behind it, the treeline is in silhouette but most of the rest of the wetlands are just black.

Color photo taken looking down a canal, with a highway overpass on the right, and a bank of trees on the left. On the overpass, a truck with headlights pointing at us is just visible in the distance.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The drama of these last two is delightful. WHY is the photographer far away and separated by a fence. WHAT does this have to do with the wrecked car in the previous one. So many nefarious and fun possibilities to consider.

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 09/06/2026

Drivers can't kill us all 🚲✊

Photo of a Chicago Street with a police car and a semi truck and all over the street are bicycles and bicyclists laying down on the asphalt under a late afternoon cloudy sky.

Photo looking down at my legs on the asphalt and my bicycle lying down on the road next to me. Beyond you can see a number of other bicycles and bicyclists on the asphalt in the street.

Photo looking down a street with several brick buildings and trees along it. All across the asphalt. There are bicycles and bicyclists laying down on the ground.

Photo looking down a street with several brick buildings and trees visible on either side. All across the middle of the street There are bicycles and bicyclists laying down on the asphalt.

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