Eric Allix Rogers
@ericallixrogers.com
Architecture, interesting & historic places, Chicago, exploring cities by bike & transit. Mostly photos. Views my own. He/him. 🚲 🏙️ 🚆 🐱 🏳️🌈 📷
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Eric Allix Rogers
@ericallixrogers.com
· Jul 13
I've plotted my top recommended bike routes starting at the south end of the Lakefront Trail in Chicago to make it easier to share some of my favorite routes! They all basically work in reverse, but I've also tried to include train connections at the ends. All have detailed notes. #bikechi
Trying out my dad's hand-me-down Fitbit, can't wait to learn all about how badly I sleep.
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Trying out my dad's hand-me-down Fitbit, can't wait to learn all about how badly I sleep.
The Great American Pyramid
December 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Great American Pyramid
You can always spot the people visiting from out of town at a brewery because we're the ones sitting alone.
December 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
You can always spot the people visiting from out of town at a brewery because we're the ones sitting alone.
1 like = 1 grudging respect for Boss Crump, who served as mayor of Memphis from 1910-1915, and then continued running the place into the 1950s
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
1 like = 1 grudging respect for Boss Crump, who served as mayor of Memphis from 1910-1915, and then continued running the place into the 1950s
Excited to see one of the best modernist buildings in Memphis, the 1956 Rust Hall by Roy Harrover, under renovation to reopen in 2026 as the home of the National Ornamental Metal Museum!
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to see one of the best modernist buildings in Memphis, the 1956 Rust Hall by Roy Harrover, under renovation to reopen in 2026 as the home of the National Ornamental Metal Museum!
Swampy area near the Wolf River, totally covered in red cypress needles that have fallen from the trees
December 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Swampy area near the Wolf River, totally covered in red cypress needles that have fallen from the trees
Apparently they extended the Shelby Farms Greenline east past Cordova, so I biked somewhere that is also nowhere.
December 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Apparently they extended the Shelby Farms Greenline east past Cordova, so I biked somewhere that is also nowhere.
Can't decide where to bike so now I'm at risk of biking nowhere.
December 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Can't decide where to bike so now I'm at risk of biking nowhere.
Happy remembering your parents only buy single-ply to all who celebrate.
December 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Happy remembering your parents only buy single-ply to all who celebrate.
Christmas breakfast achievement unlocked: cut a melon so incompetently that my parents gave up and left the kitchen while I finished preparing it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Christmas breakfast achievement unlocked: cut a melon so incompetently that my parents gave up and left the kitchen while I finished preparing it.
My brand is pretty strong.
December 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
My brand is pretty strong.
The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar
The important thing is that you half-ass the gift wrapping with love ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The important thing is that you half-ass the gift wrapping with love ❤️
An excellent house on Isabella in Evanston
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An excellent house on Isabella in Evanston
Holy hell 🫣
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Holy hell 🫣
Sometimes you just need to eat dinner a second time.
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Sometimes you just need to eat dinner a second time.
The thing about barely limping over the finish line is that you still got over the finish line
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The thing about barely limping over the finish line is that you still got over the finish line
Hereby publicly announcing my intention to meet my yearly biking distance goal today in the most absolutely perfect way imaginable.
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hereby publicly announcing my intention to meet my yearly biking distance goal today in the most absolutely perfect way imaginable.
Why does no one visit the "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" house for the holidays?
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Why does no one visit the "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" house for the holidays?
Every once in a while, an architect dares to ask the question: what if roof, but even more so?
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Every once in a while, an architect dares to ask the question: what if roof, but even more so?
They should invent a mattress that lets me stay in bed for ten hours without my back hurting.
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They should invent a mattress that lets me stay in bed for ten hours without my back hurting.
Wolf Lake Bears?
Bears are looking at a Northwest Indiana site that borders the city of Chicago and is right off the Indiana Toll Road.
nwitimes.com/news/local/a...
nwitimes.com/news/local/a...
Bears send trucks to drill, test potential stadium site in Hammond
The Chicago Bears are conducting preliminary testing on a potential stadium site in Hammond that borders Chicago and lies in the shadow of the Midwest's largest oil refinery.
nwitimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Wolf Lake Bears?
Sunday scaries at the start of two weeks off work :-/
December 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Sunday scaries at the start of two weeks off work :-/