Places I've lived before
As part of this whole ongoing Alaska winter thing, I was just thinking that this is easily the longest winter of my life. As part of that thought process I thought I'd share a list of all the places I've lived before. Each of these places has definitely had a shorter winter than Alaska, and in places like Texas and Alabama, a much, much shorter winter.
Here then is the short list of cities and states I've lived in:
- Chicago, IL
- Lake Zurich, IL
- Barrington, IL
- Owensboro, KY
- Louisville, KY
- Lake Zurich, IL
- College Station, TX
- Manassas, VA
- Sheffield, AL
- Florence, AL
- Louisville, KY
- Simpsonville, KY
- Talkeetna, AK
- Louisville, KY
- Wasilla, AK
- Palmer, AK
There have actually been a lot of smaller moves within these cities I haven't shown. For instance, in Kentucky I think I had six or seven different addresses, and I didn't bother to list those smaller moves here. Virginia involved a lot of moves in a different way, as I lived in two different parts of Manassas, but worked in Gainesville, Fairfax, Vienna, Annandale, and spent time in Tysons Corner. And while living in three different places in Alabama, I worked in Iuka, Mississippi, on a NASA project known as "ASRM", or Advanced Shuttle Rocket Motor.
Besides living in these different places I know I've also spent at least one and a half years sleeping in hotels, but no, I won't bother listing all those here. Besides being in most states in the U.S., that also includes time in Canada, Mexico, and England.
I lived in Texas for three years, and I can only recall one winter where we had snow and ice, and it was most notable for two things. First, I worked the midnight shift at a grocery store, and when it snowed in the morning, several of us went outside and had a snowball fight. Second, I got to watch a policeman slide through an intersection because he didn't know how to drive on snow. I don't know about him, but I thought it was pretty humorous.