Greetings! From Michigan! Brian and I are here visiting his family and just chilling out. The look on his mom’s face when he surprised her was priceless.
This morning we left Chicago and drove for five hours, through Indiana and up north, passing through Kalamazoo on our way to Midland. Brian is a very fun road trip companion, though I do not reccommend hysterical laughter while driving with a mouthful of Mountain Dew.
I liked Chicago a lot; more than I expected. It had that “real city” feel that SF is missing. I don’t even know what that means, it’s intangible I guess. Leonard and I went to a White Sox game. They were unfortunately beaten 3-2 by the Tigers. Oh well. It was still fun.
Tomorrow is the family cookout, then back to Chicago in the afternoon. Monday morning we’ll go home, the week after that I start class AGAIN. Excellent.
Michigan
Hey, come on now. The Tigers need all the wins they can get. Thats cool you are in Midland. I live about 150 miles away in Traverse City. Too bad the weather isn’t a little warmer for you. The one thing I like about Chicago is that it’s a working class town. Maybe thats the feel you get from it. There is so much to do and see, yet industry is the heart of the city. Detroit is like that too.
Dude, have you been to Detroit? I live just about 30 minutes west of downtown now.
hysterical laughter with a mouthful of mountain dew = dangerous
hysterical laughter with a mouthful of hotdog and rootbeer = funny
Hee hee.
I regret that I was unable to contain the hotdog ad rootbeer.
I regret that I can’t even remember what was so funny.
“I liked Chicago a lot; more than I expected.”
Move here!
“It had that ‘real city’ feel that SF is missing.”
You know, it’s funny, but I didn’t think it was missing when I was there. I got much more of a ‘this is a real city’ feeling in SF than I got in bigger cities like Dallas or Phoenix.
Anyway…it was great to see the both of you. Thanks for coming to see me on your way.
Great to see you too Leonard!
I guess by “real city” I also meant a sense of age… old brick buildings and the way you could tell things had been there a couple hundred years. Most SF architecture is less than 100 years old.
As far as “move here,” it was bandied about, but I still love my Bay Area too much …