Flutterby™! : 'nooga

Wow, some things never change. McCallie and MLK may be two way, and downtown may have lots of new development (I like the way the new addition to the Hunter Museum connects to the Walnut Street Bridge, but did they have to give the architect quite that much leeway?), but Chaco and Eddie still run the coffee shop, KZ106 hasn't changed their playlist one bit ("I'm hot / sticky sweet / from my head / to my feet"), and although Jeff Styles has shorter hair, his show remains the same. It's amazing how much I connect with Chattanooga, and yet... I could see moving back, but it's an entirely different world from Northern California, and the reasons I left and the reasons I'd come back are all pretty much what they were a decade ago when I left.

Congrats to Mike and Nancy, sometime soon I'm going to have to come back and just spend some more time hanging out with cool people, and taking the time to plan get-togethers with all of the people I don't have an opportunity to connect with this time.

A week just hanging out and talking, with breaks to raft the Ocoee, ride the train, go hang out and watch the clouds with occasional human dangling from aluminum and nylon, walk out to Edward's Point, go boulder around Sunset Rock... And then a few days down in Atlanta to meet up with all the folks who've left but didn't go that far... Yeah, I need to talk Charlene into that for a vacation.