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LISTENING TO: Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark It has to be said with all the road trips I've taken over the years, it really is a surprise I haven't had more car trouble. It's always funny to me when it happens in a place I know really well, or on a short trip - which is exactly what happened this morning as I pulled out of my AirBnB and started heading back into Warwick - the idiot light for low tire pressure lit up like an old friend. Speaking of my AirBnB, although I usually prefer staying in my own place (must be the introvert in me), there was something really nice waking up surrounded by the other people this morning. It was an absolutely charming stay, and really was in the perfect location for anyone wanting to stay near the center of town without actually being in town. But back to the air slowly leaking out of my tire, I was luckily able to stop and fix it myself (thank you, air pump in the trunk!) before driving around to some of my favorite...

LISTENING TO: Pop Evil - Human Nature   There are some trips you take that literally push you back in time; although after the last year, that’s not really a bad thing, no?   But as I made my way up Route 17 towards Goshen, NY earlier today, my brain was firing so many shots of nostalgia, it was like participating in a movie flashback scene (the kind of vibe inspired by the end of 6 Feet Under’s final episode, albeit with flashes of the past rather than of the future and way less death).   This area of New York is chock full of memories for me. For the majority of my life (prior to relocating to the west coast), my aunt was synonymous with the area between Vernon and Warwick and Goshen; the amount of road trips through the woods to come see her make up a good portion of my childhood memories of the area. Route 17 was the main pathway back up to Alfred when I went to school there, and after graduating this area held even more memories with friends who called it home. It ...