Alright, I haven't written in this for a year. I'm going to take another shot at this and see if I can make this happen or perhaps this will just be one of those perpetual hobbies that coincides with the time of the year where I try to understand myself a but more.
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I'm in Chicago this week to work at our office here. The last few times I've been here, I was mainly at the office or the hotel, but this time around I'm making the effort to do a bit more exploring. I always tell people I think Chicago is boring, but that's probably only true for the financial district (the area I've been in the most). So today, I did a bit of exploring.
I have to admit ... this city is growing on me. I walk down the streets and they are clean. I walk along the river and admire the view of large buildings along the north loop. The people here seem less crazy than the random people I see in NY, which is always a calming notion. Food is overall pretty good, though I'm still having asian food as often as I have it in NY (50% of the time), which really isn't anything too new. I find it really interesting how part of the city is one "floor" higher than the rest, with a magical underground highway underneath. It reminds me of that square maze game where you need to navigate a metal ball through a maze, keeping the ball from falling though gaps in the maze and falling to its doom. Its like the city is raised and there is some secret underbelly which has yet to be uncovered... or maybe its just an efficiently underground highway.
Traveling and exploring is something I've been meaning to do for a long time (Chicago and everywhere else), but I'm always so preoccupied with work that there is little time to appreciate other things. I had a bit of a headache today because I think I was trying to do too many things at once: Walk, listen to music, think about work, read book on travel in Tokyo. Let's just hope my upcoming trip to Asia [more on this later] will help to give me a bit of clarity in my self-inflicted busy life ...
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