I recently took an airplane flight to and from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Just before landing, I queued up the Simon & Garfunkel song \u201cAmerica\u201d to play on my headphones. I listened to this song as we landed because one line of the lyrics goes, \u201cMichigan seems like a dream to me now,\u201d and just after that, the Michigan city of Saginaw is name-dropped. This was about the best song I could think of in the moment that had some sort of connection to Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I do this often when traveling by air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are a few other places I\u2019ve traveled to in the past couple of years, along with the song I listened to during the final few minutes of the flight\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Chicago, IL \/ \u201c25 or 6 to 4,\u201d by Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Memphis, TN \/ \u201cGraceland,\u201d by Paul Simon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Honolulu, HI \/ \u201cIn Blue Hawaii,\u201d by Brian Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Washington, DC \/ \u201cWhen the President Talks to God,\u201d by Bright Eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Albany, NY \/ \u201cNew York State of Mind,\u201d by Billy Joel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-San Diego, CA \/ \u201cCalifornia,\u201d by Mason Jennings<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Tulsa, OK \/ \u201cMy Oklahoma Home,\u201d by Bruce Springsteen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Washington, DC (again) \/ \u201cRonnie\u2019s Rap,\u201d by Ron and the DC Crew<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Los Angeles, CA \/ \u201cBeverly Hills,\u201d by Weezer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Honolulu, HI (again) \/ \u201cRocking Chair in Hawaii,\u201d by George Harrison<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Washington, DC (again again) \/ \u201cAmerican Idiot,\u201d by Green Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have also been a few places I\u2019ve flown to, and I couldn\u2019t think of a song that would fit well (and that I\u2019d like to listen to). This includes Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, and Portland. So, if you know of any good songs that might fit in with any of those places, let me know. I might need to use them if I ever return to those places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also it appears my next time on an airplane will be a flight that takes me to Salt Lake City, Utah. And\u2026I don\u2019t know which song to play. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently took an airplane flight to and from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Just before landing, I queued up the Simon & Garfunkel song \u201cAmerica\u201d to play on my headphones. I listened to this song as we landed because one line of the lyrics goes, \u201cMichigan seems like a dream to me now,\u201d and just after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6317,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions\/6317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}