In two days, I embark on the next chapter of my life - in parts daunting and exhilarating alike. Friday marks the start of what should be a four-day road trip from Milwaukee to Irvine/Orange County, California, about as diametrically polar opposites in terms of culture, attitude, atmosphere and weather as you might get. It's all to start what is, basically, a dream job straight out of college.
Myriad laptop woes that have plagued me for the better part of the last month have meant working from a hodgepodge of computers. That should be rectified once I arrive. But what that also means, is I'm not sure how likely a series of road trip blogs might be. Hopefully they happen, but if not, I know I'll be tweeting from the road at twitter.com/tonydizinno. I'm sure some sort of humorous anecdotes, sarcasm or photos will happen from there.
For now, that means shutting the door on my time in Milwaukee - a place that has always been a second home to me and one that I've come to love even more during the college years.
Rather than go into excruciating detail about every little thing that happened along the way, here's a few things I'll miss about Milwaukee, in no particular order:
-Mom (she moved back here) and other cousins/family members
-Marquette in total
-Marquette basketball
-Winters (at least initially, until it's 60 in January/February and I can rub it in)
-The food vendors (Pita Bros., American Euros, Tigerbite and The Fast Foodie, among others)
-Packers football/Lambeau Field/post-game and local sports
-The summer festivals (Festa Italiana > Summerfest, but both still awesome)
-Greendale and Ferch's
-Kopps' and Sobelman's (Sobelman's gets the edge on my favorite burger)
-Road America (although, I hope to be back in 2012 if IndyCar and ALMS could have a double-header weekend)
-Marquette friends, notably the Tribbers and Zahn twins (probably the coolest set of peeps I met at MU)
-Caff's, not so much Murph's
-Brewers games
-Being so close to Chicago
-The light traffic
-Spotted Cow and Leinie's Summer Shandy
There's more for sure, but those are some of the ones off the top of my head. It's a great city and highly underrated on the U.S. scope of such great cities, being in such close proximity to both Chicago and Madison. With a couple cousins still in college here, as well as family still to visit, there's no question I'll be back - but now is about the turning the page and seeing what comes next.
In two days, that journey begins.
Out for now, cheers.
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