A Certain Point of View, Too

Oh, the Places I’ve Been To (and Lived In)!

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Alex Diaz-Granados
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In my 63 years on Earth, I’ve been to many different places. Most of them, of course, were just brief visits or “passthroughs” in my life’s occasional meanderings. A few, like Miami, Bogota (Colombia), Sevilla (Spain), Tampa, Madison (New Hampshire), and (now) Orlando, were places I called “home,” even if at times this was more aspirational than I thought.

Ingrid Gottlieb (right) and me in Sevilla, 1988.
Here I am at Arbetter’s Hot Dogs in Miami. Man, I miss going there with friends….
When I lived in South Florida, I often waited till early evening to go for walks in the summertime. (Photo taken on June 5, 2014 by the author)
I took this photo over a decade ago during a trip to the Winn-Dixie supermarket close to my former home in South Florida.
I lived in a quiet Tampa suburb for seven years after my mom died in 2015. (I moved there in April 2016, and left in December 2023.)
December 15, 2023…my arrival date in the Granite State.
One of the first truly snowy days I experienced in New Hampshire…this was on January 8, 2024.
My first excursion in New Hampshire, December 16, 2023
September 2024…a few weeks before I moved back to South Florida.
A brief stop somewhere in Virginia, October 22, 2024.
I snapped this “first photo back in Florida” in late October 2024.

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3 responses to “Oh, the Places I’ve Been To (and Lived In)!”

  1. kwholley63 Avatar
    kwholley63

    I grew up in New Hampshire and lived 10 years in Tampa. That snow photo gave me the shakes.

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      Alex Diaz-Granados

      I had seen snow before, of course; I’d been to New York City in early spring back in ’86 and ’87, and I traveled to Colorado in February 2000, so I wasn’t a “snow newbie” by any means. But this was the first time I lived in New England, and the amount of the white stuff was…staggering.

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    thomasstigwikman

    Yes you lived in many places, mostly warm places. I lived in many places too, mostly cold places (northern Sweden, very northern Sweden/Finnish border, Uppsala/Sweden, Cleveland/Akron Ohio, New Mexico, Detroit, Wisconsin, Texas, and working 6 weeks in Germany, which was maybe not long enough to be “living”).

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