Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Challenge: Last Place I Traveled

This is part of the weekly Blogging Challenge over at Long and Short Reviews. If you'd like to participate, you can find the prompts here. They also put up a post every Wednesday where you go and link your response -- and see everyone else's. Check out their homepage to find it.

The challenge for this week is "the last place I traveled to, and why."

The answer, of course, is "the grocery store and bacon."

But of course when these prompts were put together there wasn't a pandemic on, or at least it wasn't on anybody's radar yet. Back in those golden times, buying groceries was just something you did; it wasn't a terrifying quest fraught with peril, requiring meticulous and thorough preparations. So I suspect that isn't really the sort of answer we were looking for, here.

So... the last place I traveled to that required, you know, actually leaving town was Cleveland, Ohio. I went there for a software conference, and it was... fun, I guess, in its way. It was certainly educational; there were training sessions as well as people hoping to sell you on new products. I am oh-so-very-much-not an extrovert, so I ducked out of a lot of the social activities and finished both Gideon The Ninth and The City In The Middle Of The Night — which I consider time well spent, frankly. And I did get to walk around downtown Cleveland and see the Museum of Rock'n'Roll, so there's that.

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  1. Yes, Michael, today a road trip for me it going across town to a barbeque place and get a pound of brisket, pulled pork and chicken. Three pounds with their fantastic BBQ sauces, they have six kinds. Is pure heaven. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/06/wc-063020.html

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  2. How often do you go to conference (in non-pandemic times, of course)?

    I'm introverted like you and have similar reactions to them. Yes, they're fun...but they're also overwhelming after a while! I'm glad you paced yourself.

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    1. It's pretty much just that one - it's centered around a particular piece of software that I'm responsible for. I really should have added a second one (for another system that I inherited last year) but there wasn't money last year and there isn't a conference this year, so I'm pretty much faking it on that system...

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  3. Hahaha... to the store for bacon is very much an acceptable answer!

    I was about to ask if the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame was in Cleveland, that alone would have made it worth the trip!

    https://nerdyreadergirl.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-july-1-2020/

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    1. Yeah, that part was worth coming out of my hotel room for!

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  4. It will certainly be wonderful when shopping isn't a grand adventure any more ...

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  5. I got excited driving along the river to one of our favorite wineries. We couldn't go in to pick up our wine. We had to drive through this narrow path, stay in our car, and let them load our wine into the trunk. Strange times.... And bacon is a must have in this household! Great post.

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    1. Yes, the sudden shift to "Just pick up your alcoholic drinks and go!" has been welcome, but a bit jarring.

      Also, bacon.

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  6. I would love the rock'n'roll museum and...yeah, probably the social activities as well...lol. As long as I knew someone else there.

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  7. Cleveland isn't nearly as boring as it could be. I'm glad you got to the R&RHoF. The history museum and the car museum are pretty great, too. :-) And our art museum has a Rodin right out front (that was bombed) But hey, I've read books on my vacations, too. It is time well spent.

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    1. It turned out to be a much better setting for a conference than I was expecting, honestly.

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  8. I've been smiling at the topics too, Michael. Some of them just don't fit anymore but we're all still managing to have fun with them I think.
    As for bacon... at least your taste buds got an adventure!

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