I've just finished settling down in my new home after moving 800 miles from Memphis, TN to Saint Paul, MN.
This was primarily the reason why I've been MIA for the last four or five weeks.
Driving all that way entitled me to see the world outside my Memphis bubble. Missouri was kinda ho-hum; still kinda hot-weathered, very hilly in places--interesting rock-faces.
Iowa though, was much prettier despite it being mostly farming land with crops, irrigation systems and wind turbines. I suppose you have to really see it in person. Pictures of farmlands are boring. Seeing it in person is gorgeous. As someone who'd only ever been accustomed to livi