Posts filed under ‘travel’
I <3 Detroit
Thank you Lindsay for posting this on FB..
Why I love Detroit: 13 stories
One of the best parts of this is that the first person is Ara Howrani, who grew up with my brother Brian. Awesome. I like his answer, all his favs rock.
I also like what the last person, Margaret Thomas says:
”It’s not precious and beautiful and full of new things, but it has a rich history and residents who love it. Obviously, these times have brought us a lot of depressing issues. Sometimes we feel bad because people don’t understand it. I think of Detroit as a well-kept secret.”
Agreed.
Oh yeah, Go Wings!
-p
Nature, Goulet/potw
It’s been a hot minute and a lot (kinda) has happened since last I blogged.
The biggest thing would probably be that I turned 25 on the 22nd. Yikes. My quarter-life-crisis is still hanging around, though I think its been around long before I actually had my birthday. I’m OK and everything, but hitting 25 is the magic number that kinda kicks ya in the pants a little. To celebrate I went west to Holland, MI. Good times were had, got wacky, said hello to Big Rock Candy Mountain and sang a lot of 90s music.
mmmyes
Oh yeah! I also saw This American Life Live on Thursday. What a treat. It’ll re-air on May 7th if you missed it, and I believe it’ll be on the radio, but I highly recommend seeing it for the extra visual greatness. Do it!
Sooo, yesterday, withsome trepidation I went for a run with my good friend Eric Elliot aka E-dub at Paint Creek Trail in Rochester. Eric has been running like a maniac for some time now. Me on the other hand have been a runner for a while, but mostly off and on like. His idea was to do 13 miles, since I’m training for one naturally. I tell him I’ll run for my required hour of training for the day and see where I’m at after that. So far, I’ve been up to about 5-6 miles. About a half mile in is when the thunderstorm downpour started. It felt simultaneously crazy and awesome to run in that weather. Frogs and worms came out to play. The thing about Eric is he’s a crazy motivator. I was definitely not on the same level as him and my body was not ready for that amount of action, but he kept insisting and pushing me to the finish. Around mile 9 I had to take it down a notch andwalk for a while. Eric wasn’t having any walking, but I had to. I was glad because I hung out with 8 deer. After some recouping, I jogged out the last few .miles. So after all the crazy weather, nature and jello-legs, I made it 13 miles. Farthest I’ve ever traveled on foot in one stretch. I’m glad Eric pushed me. It was about time something like that happened. So, for that E-dub is this week’s Person of the Week!
Last note. Went to Jumbo’s, my favorite karaoke on Saturday nights to finish off my birthday celebrations. I gotta say, its just not the same since Nick the karaoke guy got replaced. If anybody wants to go down I might have 1 or 2 more visits in me until I find another cool dive bar w/singing.
take it easy cheesy.
-p.
Nanifest Destiny
If you hadn’t already known, I’m in Philadelphia for a few days.
So far its been good times. I went out with city planner folk from Penn on a Christmas crawl in which we went to 3 houses that featured its own holiday theme drink. Kristin’s house was the last stop, we made doughnuts and hot toddies. It was a hit.
Tonight Natalie and Luke are driving in from Cinncinati. The last time we were all together was at Natalie’s brother’s wedding, which feels like a long time ago. It’s also their first time here. I can’t wait to see em. Right off the bat we’re going to hear some jazz at ARS Nova. We’ll probably visit some America-like touristy things too (good thing I’m wearing my “operation desert storm sweater).
If you haven’t heard the iTunes indie spotlight sampler, you should get on that. Its quite lovely. Especially for grey/snowy days.
-p.
