{"id":648,"date":"2007-07-31T22:16:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"146@http:\/\/benlevy.com\/blog\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T11:11:43","slug":"neither_here_nor_there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benlevy.com\/blog\/neither_here_nor_there\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Here Nor There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past month I have seen a lot of the USA.  Tom and I had a road trip from Chicago to Arizona.  A couple of weeks after that long drive, I had a short trip to Boston.  I had never been to the Southwest or Boston before so it was all pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>We made a stop in St. Louis because neither of us had ever actually stopped there to see the sights.  St. Louis is small, but has plenty of charm.  It&rsquo;s pretty easy to stroll around downtown because things aren&rsquo;t too far from each other.  I&rsquo;d love to go back some time when I had more time.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/oldcourt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/oldcourt.jpg\" alt=\"The Old Courthouse in St. Louis\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a long drive through Middle America, we finally stopped in Dallas.  We&#8217;ve all heard things about Texas, but I was still surprised.  The young people didn&#8217;t seem to identify with Texas that much.  It seemed like a lot had just moved to Dallas because of a job opportunity.  The people were nice overall, but the city can&rsquo;t really handle the demand for hip places to go out at night.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/fountainplace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/fountainplace.jpg\" alt=\"Fountain Place in Dallas\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While driving through central Texas all of those roadrunner cartoons suddenly made a lot more sense to me.  There was very little vegetation and lots of wide open spaces.  Since I am from a plains state it was nice to see the Southwest firsthand.  The heat was intense, but the scenery was amazing.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/mtrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/mtrain.jpg\" alt=\"Freight Train in Arizona\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Boston was nice to me because it&rsquo;s an old city just like Chicago.  The whole city has character.  My hotel was in Cambridge, so I had colleges in every direction.  That made it easy to find food, but things were quite in the summer.  I did have a nice view of the Charles though.  I really want to go back here and have some real fun.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/charlesriver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/images\/charlesriver.jpg\" alt=\"The Charles River\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I also had a couple of brushes with minor celebrities since my last post:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/people\/williemtb4.jpg\" target=\"blank\">Willie from Making The Band 4<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benlevy.com\/misc\/people\/cubanlink1.jpg\" target=\"blank\">Cuban Link dancing on the bar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;m glad to be back home.  I&#8217;m looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotimportnights.com\/events\/event.asp?id=594\">HIN Nightshift<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nopidrift.com\/\">Nopi Drift<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treffen2007.com\/\">Midwest VW Treffen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past month I have seen a lot of the USA.  Tom and I had a road trip from Chicago to Arizona.  A couple of weeks after that long drive, I had a short trip to Boston.  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