Close to home

As I continue this journey towards becoming a travel writer, I'm intrigued by the idea of writing about the area you live in as an outward gesture to bring other people to come visit. Isn't it funny when you've been living somewhere for some time, you no longer consider the area you live in a place you are visiting but just a place you live. When I first arrived out here in TN, I belive I was in what I would call the freshman stage of moving somewhere. Everything was new, different weird and scarey. This novelty of my surroundings, only lasted about a year until I began my sophmore year living out here. Now that I'm in my 3rd year living in Murfreesboro TN, or rather my junior year, I begin to feel the need to express that feeling of novelty further as a means of helping other people see why they need to come out and visit Murfreesboro.
As one who originally grew up just 5 minutes from Disneyland, I never shared the novelty and high reguard my friends had for visiting the theme park multiple times when they didn't live up the street. I didn't understand why other people would come so far for fun when I drove down the very street Disneyland reisdes on as a way to go to and from home. I even at one time worked at a McDonalds across the street from the theme park as well as a Mimi's Cafe just a few short years later.
So yes now I live about 40 minutes from what I would call Tennessees' Disneyland and that is how I compare it. Everything out here is so far and spread out that 40 minutes seems like up the street compared to the many hours it took to drive here in the first place. I would have considered this distance far at one time but for my first couple of years living out here I made a great commute of 40 minutes to and from Murfreesboro to the city of Nashville as a means of making a living. Let me say now, it wasn't for the money although money is what I needed when I took a job at the Opry Mills mall in Nashville. Rather, it was for the drive and the adventure to visit the city time and again so different then the one I live in. I am a city girl at heart and going to a city all the time when you live mostly in the suburban countryside, is a nice change. I indeed would love to write about Nashville from this prospective as I have no other. As one living somewhere that I love but traveling just because I could to the city to work.
Maybe if I lived in the heart of Nashville, it would lose its novelty for me as this city has done. I'm not sure I want it to just yet. Perhaps soon enough my sister and I will move closer to the big city but for now, home is what we call Murfreesboro like home is what I once called Anaheim California not so far from Disneyland.