Paul's Place on the web: Where I've Been, Where I want to go....

Places I've Been

Growing up with a single parent that did not drive I was not able to get to travel much. Sure living in Madison

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we took day trips to Milwaukee, Chicago, and the Twin Cites, But that was that was about the extent of our traveling. Then came high school. I was a member of a dance group, The Tower Twirlers. I was able for the first time I got to go to Nashville, Tennessee.

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I was quite the experience for me, never really being away from home. I got kind of a chuckle though one of the days we were there, we were at a shopping mall and I happened to ask a local if the building at the top of the hill was their state capitol building, he said, "Why yes it is." I just chuckled. It's just a small building. I'm so used to our beautiful building.

Fast Forward about ten years, I am now going out with my now wife. How do get to know your future family to be better than a sixteen hour car ride to South Dakota.

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We went out there for a family reunion, at the time I didn't take the trip for what it was worth, I didn't stop and take every thing all in.

So Fast Forward another year, Wedding bells rang for my wife and I. For our honeymoon we got to go to VEGAS BABY!

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Our stay was short but for be it was still an experience I will never forget. We were there in early September and I got a chuckle out of all the people that were clearly not from the Midwest or the Southwest, the was MAYBE 85 degrees and little to no humidity. I just thought to myself, man come to Wisconsin, it will be 85 degrees, and 95 percent humidity. The walk from MGM to Treasure Island looked a LOT shorted than it was, my feet were KILLING me.

While we were in Vegas we took the Hoover Dam tour

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It was pre 9/11 so we were able to go down into the bowels, by the generators and everything! To this day I can't get over standing and looking up at that HUGE wall of concrete holding back all that water and the work it took to make it.

Places I want to go

New York City

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I know it may sound strange but one of the things I want to do in NYC is get a dog from a street cart vendor. I know it may sound strange but it's something I wanted to do for a long time. Its not the only reason I want to go to New York but it is the one thing I MUST do if I get to go.

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