Blind Prophecy

Less overall travel in 2008 than the last couple years, but I still got to see quite a few new places and over the course of the year I traveled coast-to-coast by land for the first time (San Fran to Cincinnati by car, then–two months later–Cincinnati to New York by train).

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So, in order, the places I visited (defined as at least 1 overnight stay) in 2008 are:

• San Francisco, CA (A)
• Detroit, MI (F)*
• Salt Lake City, UT (B)
• North Platte, NE (C)*
• North Liberty, IA (D)*
• Cincinnati, OH (E)*
• Manhattan, NY (G)

(The letters correspond to their location on the map for geographically illiterate Americans)
* First time visits

Some of the most memorable sights include:

• The eastern descent out of the Rocky Mountains and into the buttes of Wyoming
• The creepy cornfields of Iowa
• Crossing the Mississippi River
• The view of downtown Cincinnati from the levee in Covington
• Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery by moonlight
• Looking out at Chelsea from the Chelsea Hotel
• Manhattan’s skyline from the front of a tour boat (the Statue of Liberty was nice, but nothing compared to the city)
• The banquet hall of Detroit’s Renaissance Center filled with over a thousand queer activists at the Creating Change conference

Filed under: 2008-review, travel by Jere Keys