Place Names

Here's a completely useless idea picked up from the Impenetrable One. Using the letters of your name, list places you've been to. Eh, why not. It's a bit long, so feel free to ignore the extended entry:

Rosenburg Texas - It's outside of Houston. I went there for a state JCL convention when I was a sophomore in high school. My utter geekiness at the dance they held one night is still a subject of shame and horror.

Omaha, NE - I know Kathy will jump up and down on me for mentioning it, but when I was there about seven years ago, I noticed that the Opera House was cattycorner to a strip club.

Boston, MA - Still probably my favorite city.

Essex, CT - Several times in college for dinners at the Griswold Inn whenever they could be wangled either from parents or friends' parents.

Roanoke, VA - Took my Bar exam there. The city features a giant star up on a mountainside and a miniature of Graceland. What more could one ask?

Telegraph, TX - You've never heard of it. Smallest place I've ever seen.

Tidewater Region of Virginia - One of my favorite chunks of land.

Hilton Head, SC - I worked as a bag-boy at a golf club there the summer before I started law school.

East Hampton, Long Island - Manhattan East.

London, UK - Lived there for a year. Margaret Thatcher once smiled at me.

Little Compton, Rhode Island - What better way to spend Senior Week in college than at the beach house of a professor you never had for any classes?

Anchorage, Alaska - See below.

Mt. Katmai National Park, Alaska - I went fly-fishing there with me old dad several times. Beautiful. But the bears are a constant problem.

Atlanta - I met a lady there who knew Margaret Mitchell in her youth. Nothing makes one more conscious of being in the South than having an upright matron stare into one's eyes on being introduced and ask, "Wheyuh are yoah pey-ple from?"

Bath - Both the one in Maine and the one in Somerset.

University of the South - There's an amazing view from the top of the mountain where this school sits.

T - Uuuuh....Tower Records. Mmmmmm, Tower Records......

Cincinnati - I just had to see the town that Jerry Springer ruled.

Huddersfield, Yorkshire - If you're very careful, you can keep your eyes locked on the edge of the Dales and imagine the stories of James Herriot without noticing the leftovers of 19th Century industrialism all around you.

East Lyme, CT - I went to a pool party there with a bunch of the guys. Oddly, we've never been asked back.....

Rochester, NY - In addition to being born there, I went to a national JCL conference at the U of R one summer during high school. My very first run-in with collegiate campus security.

And there you have it.