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Goodbye, Chicago

by Krista

photo (1)I’m on a plane!

To London.

Yes, if you’re reading this Wednesday evening Chicago time, I have purchased a one-way ticket from Chicago to London and I’m somewhere in the sky right now.

My belongings sit in a container in a port somewhere in America, ready to depart. A lot of Americans I know think I’m crazy. (“Wait…you’re moving to London on Wednesday?” and “You don’t have anywhere to live??” and/or “You still don’t have a plane ticket?”) But my parents and Uncle George and Aunt Ursula and legions of taxi drivers across Chicago don’t think I’m crazy, and that says something now, doesn’t it? 

Oh yeah, and that plane ticket problem? Obviously I solved it. Thank you, Internet, which allows you to purchase magic paperless tickets to and through the sky with bits of plastic at the last possible minute.

You know what the weird thing is…10 years ago on June 26, 2004, I published my first ever blog post on the then “Krista in London” site on Typepad.

If that’s not a crazy big sign from somewhere, I don’t know what is.

So yes London, I have come back for you.

P.S. I took that photo under the El tracks in Chicago at that point in Lincoln Park where Bissell dead-ends into a parking lot around North Avenue. Tunnel vision, for sure.

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7 comments

Val 2014 -

I’m so excited for you! Congratulations – see you there sometime!

Krista 2014 -

Thank you!! Hope to see you soon!

kaszeta 2014 -

Your a hard person to catch. I never did catch up with you in Chicago, maybe I’ll catch up with you in London this time.

Krista 2014 -

It’s a deal!!

Carolyn 2014 -

Excited for you Krista and crazy June 26th full circle!

Sylee 2014 -

Welcome back to this side of the pond!

Krista 2014 -

Thank you, Sylee! Hope Berlin is treating you well as always!

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