few contenders for that spot
Posted on 12/07/2014 10:59:06 AM PST by Bettyprob
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I never went to Paris but my Navy ship pulled into Brest, France once. I enjoyed that, the people were really nice. I was expecting bad from what I’d heard about France but they were great.
I was taken a little aback by the people feeding their little dogs at the table in local restaurants, but no big deal, just different. When in Rome....
I did a tech-assist visit to the Egyptian Air Force once and I don’t ever want to see that skiffy country again unless I’m bombing it.
I agree. Back in the day, Vegas was cool. Went back in 2011—what an overpriced crap-hole. Was also underwhelmed by Athens too. Beijing was a smogfest, but the Imperial City was cool.
Most awesome foreign cities? Oslo, Munich, Salzburg, Rome, Prague, and Jerusalem.
Best American cities? New York, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, and Seattle.
Jamaica is on the list.
And I agree with you.
Ours was Wilmington Delaware. My sis-in-law said she’s had a great time in Wilmington. Turned out she was in Wilmington North Carolina!
We saw a man being arrested on the street, there was a black out in our hotel in the middle of the night (and this was not too long after 9/11 so we were terrified and it was the Sheraton), what a complete dump.
After that excursion I am no longer allowed to plan vacations!
You can have your pyramids, your your grand canyons, your caverns, your Mt. Rushmore's and all that other ticky-tacky touristy stuff.
These days, I like to keep my vacations simple. Just give me a sunny beach, a cold margarita on the rocks, a good book to read and I'll be happy.
I go to England and Ireland to see the castles and Stonehenge. The Pyramids would be on the bucket list only if they could be packed up and shipped here for a few days. I’ve seen enough of the world to prefer to stay at home.
Uber-Bayern uber Alles.
Yep, if I had to do it again, I’d stay in the smoke-free Marriott on the edge of town and don’t give a crap about the strip. Like any place, I’m sure it has its good and bad and I’ll do better to educate myself on what to do since my last trip was an education in what NOT to do.
We summered in western Michigan every summer when I was young. Beautiful along the shore is Lake Michigan.
As something of an Iceland lover, go, at least once, and get out of Reykjavik. Spend days around the island and the interior if you can. It is an otherworldly experience.
Sorry, Key West — the whole Florida Keys — all of Florida — were a big NOTHING to me.
I have visited many places in the world including 49 states. Any places where one could have an enjoyable visit. I can recommend itineraries to my friends and the had similar experiences.
I did three days two nights San Antonio glad I did.
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1. I lived in SoCal, and did both the tourista, and the native look-e-loo thing.
Before a **&^%^5^ vandal burned it, the solitary little home of a human, made from bottles, in the Big Bear Lake area, was fascinating to touch, look at, and wonder about.
Though it was owned by the Knott family, the idea of a ‘glory hole’ mine in the middle of the Mojave Desert was intriguing, even with the tourist-trap miner’s town.
In Barstow, and those who are rail fans might know, was a very large railyard, with a large part of the business, coming and going from FT. Irwin, which had a prominent place, as the site of the major tank conflict, in the Cinerama movie, “The Battle of the Bulge”.
In Bloomington, I stood on a catwalk about the railyard, on a day where the Southern Pacific Daylight train, in it’s orange and black colors, ran beneath me, and I was baptized in it’s smoke.
Out on the dry lake beds of the Mojave, there were many times where the then-new phenomena of ultralight aircraft, were being developed, assembled, and flown.
In a place called Lytle Creek, I learned about the finer points of fly-fishing, and scoring a few 15-inch rainbow trout in the process.
In the years before the 1984 Olympics, I used to frequent the gun range that was used by the Olympic competitors, north and east of Redlands.
A visit to Mojave Narrows, the head water of the underground Mojave River that flowed north, the various outcroppings seen in many a western movie, and a few Star Trek episodes, and the wonders of sitting near the precipice of a 4000 foot drop to the edge of the Lower Desert, below, and the natural grandeur provided by the ever-busy faultlines of Southern California.
Lastly, a visit to a street six blocks up from the forever-moored Queen Mary, with the long drives from first, Victorville, and later, Rialto, to my then-alive grandmother, in her small apartment and her Murphy bed.
These things might not be on some folks’ itinerary, but they are part of the California heritage.
At least in the 70s we were able to walk through it / climb on it.
Saw a DuPont estate in Wilmington. Nice 3-4 hours including good lunch
I found Cat Ba island in Vietnam to be very cool to visit, but if you want to do it, do it soon, I can easily see it becoming a place that caters to one percenters and their yachts like John Kerry within 10 to 20 years. I do travel world wide alot, and there are a few places that stand out, I find most are just third world same ol’ same ol’. I for one am happy to just drive my ‘66 landcruiser top off, and windshield down across Nevada, there is plenty of stunning vistas, and no people.
Have you been to San Juan, Puerto Rico? My husband and I are discussing a visit next year.
Never visited other parts of Florida, but have repeatedly been to Key West. Love it there.
I love visiting the U.P. in Michigan, a bit far from California tho’...and luv, luv, luv going to Macinac Island. You can tour the Grand Hotel for $10 (would love to stay there someday, but pricey). You can rent bikes on Macinac, or walk all over the place, or ride carriages, visit the fort, etc. During the revolutionary war, Macinac stayed British, was just turned over to the U.S. after the fact. We stay in the U.P. very reasonable rates, and always take the boat over to Macinac for one day, and schedule our air trip to turn in our car and return from the east end of the U.P. (if you take your passport, you can drive over to Canada from that end...it is a short drive). They also have casinos in the U.P. which can be fun. Henry Ford built a little village in the U.P. for his workers building his cars...early socialism. They now rent out these little wooden houses in the summer. We’re going to try it out next time we go.
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