So now we're heading right into the first post of something I felt like doing in my spare time. I suppose the first post should do a decent job of explaining the purpose of this blog. (I promise future posts will be heavy on the city and light on back story)
Lite Summary:This blog will chronicle the goings-on in Huntsville, Alabama and surrounding territories. I will post my experiences with community events, night clubs, bars, concerts, hiking, camping, theatre, and just about everything I can find in this city to keep occupied with. The reviews will be from a youngish (23) fairly average white male just trying figure out what niches exist here. I will attach pictures, videos and anything else to make the posts as useful as possible with the goal of creating a blog that I wish existed when I first moved here (only a few months ago).
Personal Back Story Nonsense (Warning, content my contain useless personal information)
:I've lived in Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, and now Alabama (Thank God I'm a country boy!) and by God's loving graces I've had a great time in every one of those states. I moved here because of my job. Huntsville is rocket city and I went to school to build rockets so it seemed like a logical transition. I packed up the truck and headed down south in early 2009 without a clue of who I'd meet or who would become my friends. I'd be at least 700 miles from my nearest relative, but I've started my life from scratch a few time before and I was looking forward to doing it again.
Huntsville has been by far the most challenging cities to figure out of all the places I've called home. Imagine a city of 200,000 people and the majority of them have moved here recently, uprooting themselves from everything they know and love in search of a fulfilling career experience. This city is ripe with engineering jobs and most of those jobs are exiting, well paying, and involve explosives of one kind or another. People come from all over the US just to work here. Well, the first thing that a freshly relocated engineer does in this situation is grab ahold of anything familiar they can get their hands on and hold on tight. For the engineers that aren't right out of school and have established families (wife, maybe a kid or three) this works out pretty well. The families get closer and rely on each other to help become part of the Alabama community. The rest of us are forced to take shots in the dark on people to see if that next friend or significant other is out there.
The shots in the dark sound a lot like how college was if you were an out-of-state person like myself. College was completely different than here though. When you're packed into a giant campus full of people in a similar situation, friendships grow like weeds. People aren't afraid to take risks and meet someone new. Here in Huntsville, it seems as if everyone becomes scared of each other and retreat to the safety of their room. And if you're lucky enough to find a few friends, they quickly close themselves off from any potential new friendships in order to protect that which was so difficult to attain in the first place.
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong-luh mah?" I don't know why, but that quote popped into my head as I was typing. Seemed to fit right in with the tone of the last paragraph.
Well, I for one refuse to just give up. I'm going to experience everything this city has to offer and share it in hopes that someone else decides to experience things too. If you're one of those folks who've found their niche in this city than you can use this as a simple community events page to remind yourself of the cool things going on around here. For those of you closer to my situation, you can use this as a starting point for finding whatever it is you need to make Huntsville your home.
Now for a little on bloggin itself. I've always wanted to write a blog and I've even gone so far as to create one or two of them in the past. None of them ever made it much past ten posts before I gave up. The theme of the blogs were uniquely personal, which makes for good blog reading when you have some super secret spy life to write about. I however am an aerospace engineer and though building rockets could possibly seem glamorous, the real story doesn't make for page-turning excitement. The previous blogs about my personal life made me feel selfish and people aren't really that interested in hearing someone whine about their feelings. I'm not emo, I SWEAR. So here's my attempt to keep from being selfish and actually contribute something useful to the intarwebs.
I suppose thats enough for today. The next round of posts should be me recounting the last few months with current events mixed in. Feel free to comment if you see something you like/dislike. Catch you on the flip side!
canyon can cause you to get your feet wet. The last mile of the trail is along the canyon wall and can get extremely narrow. When it rains, those trails get extremely slick and I almost toppled off the trail and fifty feet straight down on more than one occasion. If there's moisture in the forecast, be careful!
