Milwaukee
Milwaukee's always been a strange place for me... in "stream of consciousness" form here are my thoughts. In a way it's a slightly bigger, slightly-more-foreign-to-me dopplegänger for Grand Rapids...but in other ways it's more like a Chicago-in-miniature. I haven't really gotten a feel for the city as itself...in my mind it's more of a reflection of other places I know. Regardless, I've enjoyed every trip I've had there and probably have a more positive feeling towards it than I should as I haven't spent more than a few minutes in the suburbs.There are fascinating neighborhoods and a wonderfully interesting downtown. Like most Chicagoans I'm most familiar with the art museum (which is more than worth a visit) and need to familiarize myself more with the restaurants and shops and people.
The last (extended) time I was there, April and I ate at a family-run restaurant on Brady Street. We arrived around 3:30 and the restaurant was mostly empty apart from this one very odd couple. The man was in his late fifties, very nerdy and obviously wealthy. The woman was in her late-twenties and quite demonstrably affectionate. The body language wasn't that of husband and wife, or even that of a couple on a date. It was most definitely that of man and mistress...a fleeting time together in (somewhat) public.
I took this shot while April was in the restroom...setting the camera on the table in manual focus and purposely putting the shot out of focus; just as they would prefer to have been seen.
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I've been to Milwaukee three times now, never for more than a few hours, and have always enjoyed my visit. A friend of ours moved from Chicago to Milwaukee, and has a business in the Historic 5th Ward, so have spent most time there. We daydreamed about getting a summer house there on the water, but…
I got a good sense of the city when we were working there on Miller Park. Even though we were stationed in the west suburbs. It seems like many other cities where the downtown is starting to have a reemergence and is active outside of working hours. But I found that it's still to quiet for my taste. It's too small to live in and too big to get-away-vacation to.
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