Tomorrow I headed north. I’ll be leaving Kentucky for a little while with my current destination to be Boston, MA. I expect that I’ll be leaving from Lexington around 4:00am (that will cut an hour off the trip tomorrow, which is nice.)
In the right sidebar is a small map that includes my vague location. My progress can be viewed by anyone visiting this website courtesy of Google Latitude. If all goes well the drive will be right at 14 hours. My first destination, though, is to see a friend who lives outside of Albany, NY.
This blog will discuss the travels, what I find in Boston (fun, excitement, food, employment), and will allow me to connect some with the online world.
But Garrett, why Boston? I’ve only been there once, and it was probably 15 years ago. I don’t remember a whole lot about it (though I did go see a pre-Pitino Celtics game), but the more I read about the city, the more I’m pulled to the idea of living there. I also have several good friends there as well as a large pool of secondary and tertiary connections through various people I’ve met (mostly within the last five years or so). I’m also interested in starting an MBA program within the next year or so, and the metro Boston area is home to several schools I find myself interested in attending.
So, of course, I’m excited. But I don’t really have any set plans – yet. Hopefully those come into fruition fairly quickly, but even if they don’t, it will certainly be an adventure. Risky, yes, but a calculated one. I may be jumping into a city that I really don’t know without a set plan, but Boston is the most likely candidate city for my own success. It should be one heck of an excursion.
(View the route after the jump.)
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