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[petermarcus]

In the last ten years or so I've traveled from Los Angeles to Boston, Canada to Mexico, New York to Key West, London to Paris to Monaco, and probably more cities in between than I can count.

If there's one city that would just disappear of the face of the Earth, and yet wouldn't bother my in the slightest, that city would be Newark, New Jersey.

I'm back. It was cold. It was snowy, then rainy. The only point of interest (other than biz, which went well, all things considered) was my drive out of Newark airport to a suburb a half-hour or so south -- I took the Tony Soprano route! Yep, I passed the exit ramp to Elizabeth, the ugly bridge to Staten Island (the Goethels bridge, I think). I went through the I-95 toll booths, and passed the big white petroleum tanks with 'Drive Safely' written on the side. I had a mix-CD in the car with me and I completely forgot to put A3 on it.

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[wolfiegirl.livejournal.com]

For me, it would be Bellevue, Nebraska.

I've never seen an uglier or smelled a stinkier town.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Yep, that one stinks. Sometimes literally.

Gary, Indiana smells, too.

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[wolfiegirl.livejournal.com]

Yep... pretty much from spring til late summer it reeks in Bellevue. When I first moved there (at the end of an August), I thought it was the smell of rotting corn.

Never been to Gary, so I have no idea about that one.