Despite my occasional mocking of some of the peculiar decisions that sometimes are made in this town, I still love Davis and I'm thoroughly enjoying living here. Until today, if someone mentioned 'Davis' then there is only one place that I would think of. That is no longer the case. You probably don't know but our great country is blessed by three other places called Davis (in Oklahoma, West Virginia and Illinois). If we also consider the original name of Davis (which was Davisville) then there are also name-sake towns in Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Kentucky, and Rhode Island. Furthermore, if we extend our search to include 'Davis City' then there is also a place of that name in Iowa.
So why does it matter that our town is not unique (at least with respect to its name...it certainly is unique in many other ways)? Well, one of our fellow Davisites thinks that we should settle the question of which Davis is the best Davis by way of staging an inter-Davis contest. The plan (which is only tentative at the moment, but will possibly be submitted to the city council in the coming weeks) would be to invite representatives from our name-sake locations to Davis and challenge them at a number of events. Each Davis(-ville, City) would choose their own event, so I'm guessing that any event that we (Davis, California) nominated would surely feature cycling. Anyone have any ideas for what events we would be good at? I'm sure that if this actually goes ahead, then this would be the sort of competition where crazy events would probably be more suitable (how about a tree-hugging contest?).
I'm not sure if it would be entirely fair to do this all on home turf, but then if events had to be staged at every different location then that's going to get a bit complex to organize (and expensive too). Actually, I think there was some discussion that if this was successful, it could become an annual feature and each year would take place in a different Davis. Now I'm sure that all of the other Davis's, Davisvilles, and Davis Cities are very pleasant places to live, so I'm not sure if we want to risk creating rivalries by claiming that any one Davis is better than any other. However, I guess this could be a lot of fun and probably would be good publicity for Davis. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love Davis...all of them!
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