If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to take another look back at my project, this time through song.
Philadelphia
Sound & Vision or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Whiskey
Chapter II: I chose Philadelphia for my second year specifically so I could push myself, test my mettle. In that sense, it fulfilled every expectation.
Moving is hard. Sometimes, it’s brutal.
Chapter I: Loss is a fundamental part of traveling; people rarely tell you that.
10 Years
June 1st, 2005 - June 1st 2015.
Love Letters, Emails and the Impossible Task of Memory
There is nothing sadder than an old love letter, except perhaps an old love letter that was never meant to be a love letter.
9 Years
For 9 years, I have made my way from one U.S. city to the next, making friends, finding work, getting by. Getting old. When I started this project, not a single episode of How I Met Your Mother had aired and Neil Patrick Harris had yet to ascend to the role of everyone's favorite gay man (sorry Anderson Cooper).
The Road Trip: Day 6 (Philadelphia, with a pinch of New York City)
For the last day of my road trip, I left D.C. early and headed to Philadelphia, the second city of my project, and one of my more unusual years.
I’m A Lousy Travel Writer
10 Cities / 10 Years is a travelogue, but it's not about physical travel or getting my picture taken in front of landmarks. There are thousands of people writing those kinds of books and blogs, and 99% of them do it better than I could ever hope to. I don't necessarily mean the market's saturated, but I would say that my input in such a genre would be insignificant at best.
