The Swede,
So Maryland Avenue is the main artery through Frogtown? West Maryland, or East? (I guess "Frogtown" got its name because a lot of French immigrants settled there?)
Looks to me (using the bird's eye view at
http://maps.live.com/) like Como Avenue is a business corridor. Is that the neighborhood you're talking about?
It looks like my lead character (I hesitate to call him a hero) could pick up a car on Como, drive up Dale St. North to County C Road, jog west to Lexington, and take that the rest of the way up to Shoreview and North Oaks? How long would a drive like that take at, say 5:15 a.m. on a weekday?
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