Through the Rearview: September 2013

Though the avenue is still in its boxes, I’ve returned to the Pacific Northwest to aim for bigger success. Let’s see what happened in the month where I left my friends and family in Louisville behind to start anew in the city I was supposed to have made my life a decade prior (I ended up in Tacoma, instead).

• After six years of bourbon, horses and all things Louisville, boarded a Greyhound bus on a one-way, two-and-a-half-day trip to Seattle through the Midwest and West
• Couchsurfed from Seattle to Tacoma to Kent
• Celebrated (if you could call it that) my 35th birthday in Tacoma
• Met new and old Seattleites alike at two New2Seattle events in Seattle and Bellevue
• Opened my freelance writing services to all
• And finally, met Bella of The Citizen Rosebud in the Seattle Public Library

I still have a lot of work ahead of me, including a new bank account, my own mailbox, writing for a publication in Seattle (and figuring out how to raise $20,000 to start a Seattle spin-off of Insider Louisville), buying a new camera to replace the one I used in a fight back in August, etc.

Until we meet again, I leave you with a truly live performance of “Just Fascination” by Cabaret Voltaire from their 1983 album “The Crackdown,” which completed the English industrial trio’s move from post-punk to synth pop. All the best to you.

To be continued…

Photo: Flickr/sakuto.no_sai.

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