Wherever I May Roam
March 28, 2007 | permalink

I went to Los Angeles yesterday. And when I say yesterday, I mean that literally; I arrived at LAX at 1am Tuesday morning, and was on my way back to New York by 10pm Tuesday night. Not the most relaxing day I have ever had, with a day-long string of meetings and site surveys sandwiched between the flights, but it was productive, which was the point, after all.

I've never been to LA before, and I was struck most by the vast amount of open space. There was so much open air! I'll be honest, it made me a little uncomfortable, though I'm not sure why... I spent most of my youth in more or less rural areas, and love being outside; hiking, camping, campfire cooking- these are some of my all time favorite things. I have never felt the way LA and it's environs made me feel.

It might have been that so much is hidden. What I mean is, there are millions of people there, and yet there seemed to be nothing besides eight lane highways and open sky. There didn't seem to be nearly enough structures to support all the people that I know must be there. I guess I just wanted to know where everyone was. I know enough about myself and the paranoid way I was raised to know that I like to know what is going on around me- I guess all that open space combined with all those unseen people made me a little edgy. At least, that's the theory I'm going with at the moment, though I will happily entertain other ideas, if you have any. I will get another chance to figure it out, though; I will be back for a week when in May when it comes time to put the show on...

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