Westward Ho!!!

I'm delighted to be heading West in two weeks on a business trip to Seattle! It will be my first time visiting.  I'm looking forward to catching up with a friend attending grad school there.

A Connecticut native from relatively modest means, I never had the opportunity to travel much outside New England. Maybe I already considered myself lucky. Minus the the notorious East Coast 'tude, growing up 60 miles outside Manhattan has its perks. While I've enjoyed visiting and even working there, I'm glad I never made it my home.

I've always been drawn to the American West, conjuring visions of Dances with Wolves-era splendor, wild and uninhibited. I've always had a particular affinity for mountains. I've dreamed of seeing the Rockies.

But the travel itch didn't really begin, appropriately enough, until I started working at a cargo airline. In February I had the opportunity to travel on a business trip to Miami and later fly through Houston to land in one of my favorite new places: Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage, I suppose, could be considered the far, far Northwest. (In fact, I think I spied Russia from my hotel room window)! Within ten minutes of hitting ground I spotted moose!

...Anyway, if anyone lives near the Space Needle and wants to chat over lattes at the original Starbucks, feel free to drop me a line! ;)