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It is time for a recharge! My vacation is not getting her fast enough. I have a couple weeks left until I leave for Michigan. You all may be thinking, Michigan is not a major vacation destination. But for me i really do enjoy visiting my wife's family in their hometown of Davison, Michigan. I just cannot wait to get out here. Los Angeles is beginning to bun both of us out. Probably for different reasons, but none the less we both need, and deserve our upcoming break.

I am feeling lately that Los Angeles the city has given me all that it is going to offer. A lot has changed in the past five years, and definitely in the past 10 years. I am not going to sit here and bash LA, because that is not my style, but I feel like this kind of city is not my cup of tea anymore. Ten years ago when I arrived here for my university studies, my eyes were opened up to all kinds of new experiences that I had not been a part of growing up in southwest Connecticut. Through the college years Los Angeles was great, I mean, on any given day of the week my friends and I could think of any random idea and we could find a way to do it. Lets just say playing hockey with a broom and no skates, while wearing a hula skirt was not a problem. But as many of us know, after a while the bones don't heal as fast and the hangovers come from just a couple beers. And as I have come to this realization, part of it is that Los Angeles becomes, more and more, the city that cannot support my graduated view of life.

I am not trying to set you up to say I am moving to Alaska, I am not. I am not prepared to uproot and replant myself that easily. But, what I am trying to say is that I'm looking and thinking about where Relationship Kurt will go next, as Independent Kurt is retiring. That last part was a Seinfeld quote, for those who don't watch the show, or catch the reruns.

Who knows, maybe I will come back with a renewed sense of Los Angeles, when I return from my vacation. I know it will at least give me a chance to think. Honestly eight to 10 hours a day sometimes much more, and hardly anytime to actually think. That can be its own post at a later time. Vacations are fun, and this one is lining up to be a pretty good one, I can feel it!

Peace for now.