I’m taking all my favorite things from every place I’ve lived and making one great city with them:
saguaros
red faced love birds
sunsets
Mercury WNBA games
Bitter & Twisted
Snooze AM
The Phoenix Zoo
no snow/ice in winter
Mill Street
Social Hall
the Hippy Store
Suns NBA games
the Jordan River Trail (especially the Rose Park leg) with all it’s birds & animals
ArtsFest
Tracy Aviary
walking from Wasatch to downtown
HS all-weather track (open 24/7)
all the different birds everywhere
Cheesecake Factory (w/in walking distance of our apartment)
Raw Bean (chiller = ice cream + espresso + flavor syrup)
Uptown Cheapskate
the Temple’s Christmas lights
Bourbon House
Squatters Brewery
Sundance Film Festival
Gracie’s patio (and Halloween costume contest)
kitty-rose
Jazz NBA games
Pride Parade
Wasatch mountains so close
the Temple’s spring garden (looks like Wonderland)
City Creek (especially at Christmas with the lights & fountains)
seasons
High West in Park City
Prohibition (restaurant)
Green Bluff (you-pick farm conglomeration)
the community college all-weather track (open 24/7)
Grocery Outlet!
Steelhead
Flying Goat (goat cheese balls and D-street pizza made of curry and potatoes)
living next to a river
Riverfront Park
NoLi (patio by the river)
house sitting for the cousins
Julyamish powwow
my co-workers at the YMCA
proximity to Walla Walla & the Gorge (& CdL to a lessor extent)
Freemont (especially the colored sidewalk art)
Melting Pot in Queen Anne
watching the Storm WNBA live
Basalu ham & cheese croissant (so good I literally dream of it)
The Ram (burgers & brews)
all the different coffee shops
Union Lake, Montlake cut, Gasworks Parks (all the good picture opportunities)
Theo Chocolate
Blue Moon Burgers
the troll under the freeway
Kerry Park
all the concerts
cheapest gas prices in the country
cheap groceries
proximity to STL and KC (and Chicago)
Tropical Liquors (alcohol slushies you can drink there or take to-go)
Saki (Saturday)
Katy Trail (goes thru whole state)
PrideFest
Twilight Fest
9th Street video (indy DVD rental)
Shakespeares Pizza
proximity to other states
wineries
Flatbranch
Reno Balloon Races (& Dawn Patrol)
Wild Waters
the downtown ‘biggest little city’ arch & skyline
relatively easy freeways
outdoor shopping centers
Dayton
smell of sagebrush after rain
dark, dark nights
very quiet
less traffic
proximity to Lake Tahoe
beautiful sky
powwow in Arlee
huckleberries
Bison Range
Missoula
green scenery
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