Jeff Drew illustration
I was in middle-of-nowhere Holland when a Dutchman praised Spokane.
Specifically, I was in Linden, a suburb of Cuijk, itself in the hinterlands of Nijmegen, the 10th-largest city in the Netherlands, when Sjors van Duren began interrogating me about my origins.
“The U.S.,” I said.
“Yes,” said van Duren, an internationally known bicycle planner. “Where?”
“West Coast.”
“Yes, where?” he said, his impatience with my generalities building.
“Washington state,” I said. “Not D.C.”
“Yes, yes,” he said.
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