While G. Sax was writing his post about Skyways I think I was in the skyway, and thinking about writing a post about it. I live by downtown and the offices of Saint Paul Home Realty are in the beautiful historic Gilbert Building on Wacouta street downtown. The skyways offer miles of warm . . almost too warm . . indoor walking in the winter. I sometimes use them just to go for a walk, which is what I did on Tuesday during the lunch hour.
This is the entryway to the 6th street sky-way just outside of Dayton's, which I am supposed to call Macy's because that is the name of the store now, but because I have lived in St. Paul my entire life I can still call it Dayton's.
There is a Popcorn stand in the lobby just outside of Eco Labs (Osborne Building), the popcorn is what I had for lunch that day. I like to call it a box lunch.
I walked through the tunnels that connect the library to the rest of the skyway system and through the Xcel center and down to the court house and beyond. There are elevators but I get a much better workout climbing the stairs. The easiest way for me to get to the skyway from home is to walk down exchange street and cut through the parking ramp in the Xcel center and then go up to the skyway level. I can walk to the office but it takes about a half hour by skyway.
