Heidi Beedle, Staff Reporter In my youth, I travelled quite a bit. I grew up in rural Virginia, and then joined the Army. Uncle Sam gave me the opportunity to visit South Korea, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Germany and at least half a dozen states. I settled in Colorado Springs and put down roots. Iâve been here since 2005, and I have lived here longer than I have anywhere else. It is, definitively, home. Last week I spent three days in Boston for the Association of Alternative Newspapers with a handful of other Indy folks. The last time I was there, briefly, was probably 2004, when I visited a high school friend who lived there during leave from Iraq. It was wonderful to be back on the East Coast, the see the Atlantic Ocean and eat fresh seafood â oh my God, the seafood! â but I was strangely homesick the whole time.