Posted on 08/08/2013 7:40:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The whole island of Bali is very friendly, except for the monkeys near Ubud.
In my travels, I’ve never run into a place like the high plains of Wyoming. The people there carried themselves in such a welcoming, inviting manner. You could feel a difference, far more than I can describe it.
Galena is a ghost town with wonderful, odd antiques.
I’ve heard several people positively comment about Florianopolis.
I’d put Valetta Malta somewhere in the friendly list also.
I've got a cousin in Jackson Hole, which I understand is pretty much its own entity. :-) She likes it though.
The mega-cities are a bust, crime and sin ridden, with increasing corruption every day. We need Repentance and Revival if we are not to see Sodom and Gomorrah in every one of them.
I know what you mean, and have felt the same thing in the small towns of Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, and eastern Colorado. Those who snicker and call it fly-over country have no idea what they’re missing. Like, I suspect, Alaska and a few other pockets, this is the last frontier.
I’ve been to Monroeville AND YOU ARE RIGHT. We visited on a quiet Sunday to see the town of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” We were so enthusiastic over the shuttered courthouse, that a townsman went out of his way to find the curator of the museum and open it up for two Yankees! Needless to say, we bought every souvenir item in the shop and oohed and aahed at the interior where Atticus Finch held court. They made our visit so memorable.
Love Charleston, too!
Nice to see that two “Gulf Coast” cities made the cut for nicest: Savannah and Charleston.
For some reason Calgary didn’t make the list, odd.
The cook / owner used to come out to visit with me. "Honey, you look hungry. Lemme bring you out some more!". I never argued with her. :-)
When I said “used to be” I’m talking about 1968. We lived in nearby Piedmont. (Herb Caen called Piedmont “a white, Repbublican enclave where all the ladies have blue hair”.) Piedmont is totally surrounded by Oakland, but a very different community.
We used to love to go to Lake Merritt on a Sunday morning after church. We’d take the children to Children’s Playland I think that was the name — it closed earlier this year). Maybe it was Storyland. All of the features were on a children’s book theme. And then we’d have lunch, or an early dinner, at one of the nice restaurants in the area. In 1972, we spent a week in Honolulu and came home to breakfast in Oakland. I thought I’d returned to heaven after the mugginess and monsoon rainstorms of Honolulu.
There was a restaurant (Biff’s?) that had the best hot chocolate. A couple of radicals blew themselves up arming a bomb in the parking lot a couple of years after we moved away (1972). I think they were part of the Weathermen. Karma.
There was a great Chinese resturant in Jack London Square where they served bottomless won ton soup. Otherwise, it never appealed to me.
Bethlehem is in Israel.
There is no country of Palestine.
We were there last year, and they’re quite friendly.
WASHINGTON D.C. which has managed to pi$$ off several hundred million people and continues to do so daily.
I *did* spend a fair bit of time in SF and the surrounding area....again, being a tourist. The Muir Woods were pretty and Sausalito was a good tourist trap, but fun to poke around in.
Took two weeks worth of vacation in Big Sur with Mrs WBill. No phone, Cell phones, computer, or electricity where we stayed. Place's only amenity was indoor plumbing and hot water. It was bliss; I doubt I've ever come back so relaxed from a vacation before or since. :-)
“Victoria, BC is a delightful city where the merchants have gone out of their way to help us on several occasions.”
Being from Vancouver, I will agree. Victoria is best known as a tourist trap during the summer and cruise line seasons and the locals have been “trained” to be nice to tourists.
i’ve lived in 3 of the unfriendliest, none of the friendliest
that might explain a few things
If you are driving through Wyoming, it is worth it to schedule a stop at Little America. Little America is a fabulous resort out in the middle of nowhere. Rooms are huge and elegant and about $100 per night. Meals are fantastic. There are a couple of Little America hotels, but I like the one in Cheyenne.
The story behind Little America is that sheepherder was caught in a blizzard out on the high plains in the early 1900s. As he huddled in the blinding snow, he dreamed of a hot meal and a warm bed out of the weather. He decided that if he ever got out of this storm and made any money that he would build a hotel there for weary travelers.
Later on he made it big in oil and he kept his promise. He also became friends with Admiral Byrd and became the recipient of an Emperor Penguin that had died on it’s trip to the US from Antartica. That bird stands in glass case in the lobby today, and the hotel was named after Byrd’s Antartica colony — Little America. Emperor penguins are HUGE.
I’d have put Charleston high on that list myself. Love the place, love the people.
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