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The melancholoy solo trip is such a mystery! Happens to me every time, too, and yet when looking back as you did here, there's much good. I second your comments regarding traveling in the south. Urban Northerner born and raised, but my entire live now live in coastal south and Appalachia, and there's just so much more creativity. And maybe part of the appreciation is that delight (at least in food places/bars) always contains an element of surprise, and hidden under that surprise is a bit of my own ignorance or downplaying. Great piece; it's left me with lots to chew on.

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Thanks for the kind words, Erin! Yeah, I'm consistently more in awe of whatever is happening in Southern cities than what is happening in Brooklyn lol. Where everything seems geared towards a specific type of status-obsessed urbanite.

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I’m from Louisiana, and my Colombian husband has said the South also reminds him of Latin America! We now live in Germany, and it’s been really interesting to see how culturally similar he and I are in many ways (especially when comparing us with Northern Europeans)

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