It's a Sign! Literally.

"I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it."
--John Steinbeck

I have a strange (only because I don't know where it comes from) desire to go to Montana. It probably doesn't all look like this. But I imagine it does, and that is good enough for me. The Chicago Transit Authority has recognized this about me and has consequently plastered "See Montana" billboards on the sides of its busses and trains. So clearly it is a sign that I must go to there. And soon.

New York City: Ladurée

There is only one Ladurée location in the U.S. and it is in NYC on Madison Avenue. I need to go there because I love macarons and it is where Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl gets her macarons...

864 Madison Avenue  New York, NY 10021

Los Anxiety

I have never wanted to live in California. Then I started to come around to the idea of living in SanFran. I'm trying to be open minded about LA but I can't picture myself there. At all. Ever. As Alvie Singer (Woody Allen, Annie Hall) once said “I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light”. Great role model, right? And you can also turn on a red light in Chicago. So I guess this would be more appropriate if I was debating leaving New York.


This is what I think of when I think about LA:

A culture utterly obsessed with celebrity and media attention and plastic surgery.

And gangs and drugs (because obviously I would live n the hood)

I'm sure normal people live in LA too. I wish I could think of things like this instead:

Sitting in a park while Joseph Gordon Levitt talks to me about architecture and how much he loves me. Sigh. 

New York City: The Dakota

We must see The Dakota! The Dakota is located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1 West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023.

The entrance where John Lennon was shot.

John & Yoko

New York City: 336 Convent Avenue

There is a lot to do when we visit New York City. For example:

336 Convent Avenue where the house in The Royal Tenenbaums is located.