Travel and Tradition

<p>The University of Edinburgh is cold, erratically sunny, but common spurts of rain. The University of Iowa is not different. There are haunted bookshops next to corner diners. I&rsquo;m a writer. I used to say it was I do. Now it&rsquo;s something I am. It&rsquo;s the fanatic, crazy pro-university town status that I never seem to escape.</p> <p>November rolls around and Iowa is frozen before Scotland sees a drop of snow or ice. Students wrap themselves in blankets just to go outside; and I&rsquo;m wearing what I wore in September.Art deco frozen yogurt shops are the perfect late night snack; and theatre show crazy adaptations from Mary Kay cosmetics, musicals or heretics staging the life of Arthur Conon Doyle through the eyes of Sherlock.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@lauryn.ash/travel-and-tradition-92da5b0eacda"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>