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I travel more than most people I know, and I log more miles per year on airplanes than many people do in their entire lives. The company I keep also has a tendency toward travel, and I enjoy speaking with them about their worldly adventures and comparing our experiences. In addition, new cities and new circumstances are made even better when one is joined by a friend. Perhaps this friend could even be that rare gem among the populous throngs and hoi polloi that happened to pique one's interest while sitting in an adjacent seat on a last-minute flight to a usually dismal place which, at the end of the three-hour journey, seemed newly fresh and bright and quite perfect indeed.

It is through this remark and its poignant meaning and history that I have discovered an overwhelming desire to explore the city of Minneapolis during, perhaps, the second weekend of November. The University of Minnesota provides a number of compelling academic reasons for my travel companion and I to enjoy a long yet brief respite from mutual absence, and this prospective meeting provides more than ample reason to become quite excited. In light of this excitement, it will be with great anticipation that I spend the days and weeks ahead.