Dear Indiana (Street),

You host my two favorite blocks in the city.

Reason #1: It begins with this overgrown, untouched "park" dedicated to a crazy mathematician/hermit. Have you ever seen a park more suited to its namesake?

"After losing his position as Professor of Mathematics at Rittenhouse Academy in Washington, D.C. for abolitionist sympathizing, Hugh Cameron eventually walked westward. Cameron arrived in Lawrence with the first party of settlers in August 1854. He served as justice of the peace and one time ran a ferry. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He returned to Lawrence and published a journal for the working man, but it failed. He became an eccentric who did not cut his hair from age 55, perhaps because of a failed romance. He walked to Washington, D.C. for every inaugural ceremony. In 1907 he moved from a hollowed out tree trunk at Cameron's Bluff to an elaborate tree house and cave he built at this site. Cameron died penniless in 1908 at his sister's home in Topeka." 

Reason #2: Jayhawk flamingos.

Reason #3: Not-so-ordinary house numbers.

 Reason #4: This is your backdoor neighbor (as opposed to, say, a member of an unimaginative garage band with Monday night rehearsals).

Reason #5:  And your backdoor neighbor's backdoor neighbor.

Reason #6: This lovely lady at the end of the street. When you look at the ages of the other houses surrounding her, you can tell that she was made by the third little pig with some serious masonry skills.

Reason #7: A little inspiration. Why not paint your garage door?