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  Sara Rosinsky • Shiny Red Copy

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Oh BOI, oh BOI.

9/16/2019

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Note to self: Do not waste the reader's time by beating yourself up about how long it's taken you to write this blog. No one cares but you.

OK. So.

This summer I decided to take a trip to Boise. (Which—side note—the locals pronounce with a sibilant "s": "BOY-see.")

"Why do you want to go there?" many people asked, including my husband.

Let's see: Because I've heard lots of good things about it. Because I could get a direct flight on my favorite airline, Southwest. Because I've never been there before and now that I'm living in Colorado, it's pretty darn close. Mostly, because I'm a freelancer, and so I CAN.

So I got a flight, arranged a handful of meetings with Boise folks who might need a copywriter, booked a tiny little Airbnb house, and rented a car.

To my frustration, my workload burgeoned during this trip, so I spent many, many hours at the kitchen table of my Airbnb typing out persuasive prose. But I also managed to get out and about a bit. Here are a few of the things I enjoyed. 
Scrubby scenery with dry grass and a dirt path in Boise.
Sign: Please be Advised: Coyotes in Area Protecting their Pups / Please keep your dogs leashed
Sign: Shooters: If you brought it or shot it, remove it.
Adult quail and five or six baby quail.
Didactic from Boise Botanical Gardens with an excerpt of Meriwether Lewis's writing about how Sacagawea showed him a fennel root that will "dispell the wind" caused by some other food.
Gravestone of a prisoner at Boise's prison: "In Memory of Bud Ray, Age 19 Years, Died July 21, 1898.
Cagelike cells in the old part of the Old Idaho State Penitentiary.
Large, ornate 19th-century safe, approximately the size of a doorway.
Birdhouse on the outside of a prison window.
Street art in Boise's Freak Alley: Large face of menacing wolf on a set of double doors.
Street art in Boise's Freak Alley: stylized fierce mermaid and fish.
Painted on brick wall in Boise: a vintage ad for a Stearns car.
In addition to exploring and taking these photos, I learned the following about Boise.
  • Lots of folks fleeing San Francisco's ridiculously expensive real estate situation have moved to Boise and hiked up prices.
  • Not a lot of bumper stickers in this town.
  • No shortage of Caucasians.
  • Boise has an enclave of Basque people. Next time I go, I will need to visit the Basque Museum and Cultural Center.
  • Boise has license plates that say, "Famous Potatoes."

To me, traveling is one of the greatest perks of freelancing. Next stop: Austin!

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