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And you were not thinking of me
Feb. 5th, 2013 09:48 pmI made my third visit to Soon-To-Be New City yesterday, and I'm amused by the way my mental picture of the place is taking shape, as defined by the places I'm pretty confident I could get to without consulting a map.
Visit 1: Historic bed & breakfast; spouse's university; cheap Greek restaurant; library; multiple interchangeable cute little downtown coffee shops.
Visit 2: Generic hotel; mall; staffing agency; movie theater; Starbucks inside a grocery store; Target; Red Robin; convent with walking trail overlooking the river, where we looked down on a bird that we think might have been an eagle; two ways to get from the chain-store sprawl to the university and back again.
Visit 3: Airport; two ways to get up the bluff from the river; kidlet's high school; Ukrainian restaurant.
If I can locate a couple of money machines, an Asian grocery, a schmancy grocery, a cheap grocery, a farmer's market, a hardware store with cranky old guys who know how things work, a gym with yoga, a hiking trail, and an actual job, I'll pretty much have covered all the places I go here.
Visit 1: Historic bed & breakfast; spouse's university; cheap Greek restaurant; library; multiple interchangeable cute little downtown coffee shops.
Visit 2: Generic hotel; mall; staffing agency; movie theater; Starbucks inside a grocery store; Target; Red Robin; convent with walking trail overlooking the river, where we looked down on a bird that we think might have been an eagle; two ways to get from the chain-store sprawl to the university and back again.
Visit 3: Airport; two ways to get up the bluff from the river; kidlet's high school; Ukrainian restaurant.
If I can locate a couple of money machines, an Asian grocery, a schmancy grocery, a cheap grocery, a farmer's market, a hardware store with cranky old guys who know how things work, a gym with yoga, a hiking trail, and an actual job, I'll pretty much have covered all the places I go here.