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How I Became a Milwaukee Nomad

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  I came to Milwaukee as a travel writer and cardiac monitor technician and became a nomad. Dread Pirate Roberts, here I come! Image by the Author Confessions of a Lyft driver. If you haven’t seen nor read The Princess Bride by William Goldman then stop here and do that. One may miss Wesley’s super ambitious, though logical, quest to seek his fortune across the sea. It is no less ambitious than The Richest Man in Babylon ’s. Wesley says something to the effect of, “I shall work sixteen hours a day, beg for food, and sleep on the street, saving every penny until I’ve amassed a fortune.” That journey is, of course, the very start of a much larger one that leads to even greater payoffs and rewards. But what a start! There I was, a cardiac monitor technician on a travel assignment to Wisconsin, imagining myself as Wesley who was setting out to amass his fortune. But, my sea faring vessel was an old minivan sputtering its last remarks, stuffed with a few personal belongings. I was skeptica