duluth
We’re back in the city where we fell in love. Ah, how sweet.
Our good friend Jen lives out on Park Point now and was kind enough to offer up her living room floor as a place to sleep. She has a balcony and it’s great to sit out there and smell the fresh air rolling off Lake Superior again. We’ve been briged two or three times and, while it’ll always be boring, it was a reminder that we’re once again back in Duluth.
I think it’s going to be strange to leave. We’ve spent the better part of our adult lives here and this is the first time we’ve been in town without a place of our own in 8 years. For Anna’s family, it’s the first time since 1995 they haven’t had someone living in Duluth. It’s a great city and I love the location, the stores, the crazy roads, the music scene and the people. I don’t want to live in the cities.
But we have to. I’m going to get a fabulous job, maybe as a sports reporter in Farmington or Stillwater (working on apps for both). Anna’s going to get her Masters of Social Work and in the meantime, we’ll enjoy the culture, the music and the restuarants. It’ll be nice to be so close to so many friends and family, but it’ll never be Duluth. So it goes.
We’ll visit often. I didn’t get a chance to see the Questex people this time, so we’ll be up again soon so I can talk with the ladies in the classified dept. and show off some of our photos. I’m still working on upgrading the DVD slideshow, but I need the photo CDs we sent home with Patty and Paul’s shipment. We should get it soon, maybe this weekend, but I don’t want to download every photo from prior to Malaysia off flikr, as it would take forever.
Anywho, not much to say, I guess. BWCAW trip is coming up next weekend, which I am looking forward to. It’s been great to come back in the summer and get to do all these summer things, like barbeques, picnics, camping trips and the State Fair.
It’s great to see all of you!
Tags: Travel
Hi guys,
So sorry i missed Anna today (sigh). If it hadn’t been for the ER visit i would not have missed it for the world. One thing i was going to mention, i know someone who is putting on a gallery/academic show soon in the cities. She is looking for a photo of Hindus in the Ganges. Preferably lots of them, and huge added bonus if there is a religious rite going on. I told her i would check with you wild travelers. No money, but you would get prominent credit. Let me know if this might work.
Cheers,
Beth (time for more pain meds…)
Are you ok now? That sounded like a pretty bad fall.
No photos of Hindus in the Ganges, but we do have a bunch of photos of Hindus in the Bagmati river in Nepal, which flows through Pashupatinath, the Hindu temple complex in Kathmandu where Hindus creamate their dead. Some of the photos include religious ceremonties. She can look through what we have, if she’s interested. I’ll put them up on flickr and post a link here.
If you read this before she talks to you, Anna was planning on calling before we left to see if you might be up for a visit.
Hey Aaron & Anna – glad to see you guys are back in MN! If you ever have a chance or want to swing by good ol’ Q, we would all love to hear some of the highlights of your travels. Welcome back! -Anna
Hi Anna,
We’ll be up to Duluth again soon and I’ll be sure to come in and visit. We ended up being busy during the day on Friday this time and so I didn’t make it in during business hours. We both like Duluth a lot better than the Cities, so we’ll be there often.
see you soon!
Aaron
I say give the cities a chance. never know you just might enjoy it and meet some interesting people. Just keep an open mind. Home is where the heart is and I am sure you 2 will make a home in the cities…. if not just for a little while. Plus, I am glad to have someone to share the locational misery with me. 🙂
I was sitting here at work and I had a flashback that made me laugh uncontrolably, so I thought I would share it with you guys. Remember in Homer, if Anna took the Jeep in the morning our bagels, p.b., and coffee would be in that 5 gallon pail when we woke up. It kinda of makes me feel like an animal at the zoo now, when the caretakes prepare the food and hide it so the animals don’t completely lose all of their instincts.
i like that memory!