The beginning
This is the picture I took at the start of my road trip. And actually the end of my four years in Cincinnati.
I did like my time in the Midwest, and Cincinnati. Overall, I had a great balance of work and spending time with friends, or just spending time on my own. One of the things I will miss is my Saturday routine of Costco, Target, Trader Joe's. Which basically took the whole day for me. I will miss deciding to go to the Symphony 30 minutes before the start, and driving down to Music Hall and parking and finding my seat without breaking a sweat.
And I enjoyed meeting a whole bunch of people. People who had 9-to-5 jobs and liked it; people who commuted from suburbs into a downtown, and then back to the suburbs in time to have dinner with their families. People who take pride and identify with their companies, and feel fulfilled having a steady job and being surrounded by friends and family. To me, this will always be the ideal of the Midwest, and something I wouldn't mind coming back to at some point.
