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Greetings Everyone. It’s been a long ride, but I’m finally sitting here in Minneapolis in a hotel room the night before the PLA conference begins. My name is Nate Hill, I work at the Brooklyn Public Library, and I’m going to do my best to share bits and pieces of my favorite conference experiences on this blog.

It hasn’t been easy getting here, but its been an awful lot of fun. Myself and two colleagues, Emily Nichols and Molly Phelan drove all the way here from Brooklyn. Our voyage has been filled with adventure, so here it is in one long run-on sentence:

Start by picking up a car in Newark NJ at 6:00 AM, then driving through the snowy mountains in PA, stopping at cloned rest areas in Ohio (that looked an awful lot like libraries, don’t you think?), discussing bad tattoos with our waiter over tapas and saffron infused vodka in Ann Arbor MI, waking up with the flu but pressing on, looking for anything nice to say about the passage of I94 through Gary, Indiana, spending time in Chicago (I can’t speak to this part, unfortunately I was knocked out with the flu), driving on to Madison WI, visiting the House on the Rock (truly the wackiest place of all time), eating squeaky cheese curds, and then finally marveling at a setting sun as we approached St. Paul.

Can’t wait for the conference to get going! I’m going to do my best to tweet sort of regularly during this thing, so if you want to follow me on Twitter my name is natenatenate. See you all out there tomorrow!

Tags: nate hill, PLA, PLA2008

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