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Tennessee is my home. Even when I have been away for long periods of time, I have always been a Tennessee boy at heart.
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Washington was my place of residence for almost a year in 2001.
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I passed through Oregon while while moving to Seattle. I was working on a project in the Bay Area when I lived in Seattle, so I’ve passed through there often.
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California is a place I visit often. My employer is based here, as well as a majority of customer sites I’ve been to in the past year.
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Arkansas is of course right across the river from Memphis, so I had a lot of friends from there. I also drove straight across there a few times including when I moved to Seattle.
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I’ve been Texas plenty of times. The first time I was in Dallas I was almost killed. I didn’t realize the faux pas at the time, but it certainly was a mistake to ask what they were thinking making BBQ out of beef instead of pork.
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I passed through New Mexico on my way to Seattle. No cool stories. I just drove straight though.
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I also drove through Arizona on my way to Seattle. Nothing exciting happened there.
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On my way to Seattle, I nipped the bottom tip of Nevada. I was only there for the blink of an eye.
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California is a common destination for me. My employer is based there, as well as no small number of my customers. On my way to Seattle, I took the long way around Los Angeles.
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Oregon was the last state I went through during my move to Seattle. It was always the first state I would enter on my way back home to Tennessee.
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Idaho was also on the way home back to Tennessee.
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The first stop I made during my journey back to Tennessee was the Cracker Barrel in Ogden Utah. It was actually the closest on to Seattle at the time. I missed Cracker Barrel.
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Colorado was also on the way home. I also went to a customer site back in August for a discovery session. They are still asking for updates on the design.
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Kansas was flat.
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I have an uncle that lives in Iowa. We’ve visited him a few times.
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I have another uncle that lives in Indiana. I stayed up there with him when I was 13 for the summer.
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I’ve been to Illinois a few times. The wife and I went to Chicago a couple of years back.
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About five years ago I went to Stubenville Ohio for a conference at Franciscan University.
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I am in Pittsburgh right now, so I’ve obviously been to Pennsylvania. I would like to see the east side of the state sometime.
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I worked on a project In New Jersey back this past November. I can’t remember the name of the town, but it was due west from Newark. I wore my Braves cap my last day there in the mall and the airport. If looks could kill, I would’ve gone through a cats lives.
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Virginia is a state I just visited briefly while attending my friends wedding. He lived just outside of DC. I’ve been there too, but it’s not really a state.
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I went through boot camp at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. I have plenty of stories, but that’s for another post.
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Georgia’s a great state. I was on a project down in Atlanta the end of last year. Plus that’s where the Braves are from.
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I have a friend that used to live in Birmingham. Some friends of mine and I rove down there and spent a few days the summer between my junior and senior years in high school.
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I actually lived in Coldwater Mississippi for a while. I was in the Mississippi National Guard for six years.
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I was glad to leave Louisiana. No offense, I just didn’t like being there. It’s me, not you Louisiana.
Now what you may be asking if you’re a geography freak is a hard question to admit the answer to. When were you in Wyoming? Well I could say I was just testing you, that I left Wyoming in there to see if anyone would ask. I could lie. But the truth is much more fun. The truth is I just left in on accident. I didn’t realize it until after I had already uploaded the image to Flickr. To put it simply, I am just lazy to fix it. On the other hand, I could just say that I’m not fixing it so it’ll be an oddity, a conversation piece. But then again, why lie?
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