Subject:  lovely place to visit......wouldn't want to live there |
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delena
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Date Posted: 09:52:19 05/16/01 Wed
In reply to:
Yolanda
's message, "Re: thats the word i remember him using! thanx delena!" on 08:32:50 05/16/01 Wed
isn't it that way with most places you end up visiting? :0) no, seriously! i mean, you love it, love visiting, but there's always something that never quite compares to home.
like san francisco ("san fran" is out, people. it's "san francisco" or "the city" now). i love visiting san francisco; i love ghirardelli square and pier 39, little italy and little china, treasure island, listening to the sea lions barking as i look out over the pier to The Rock (alcatraz), and the lights of the city at night when the weather is clear....there's nothing like it. it truly is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. i lived there for a year, right outside the city in a town called redwood city.
and i absolutely hated it! i would never go back there to live. visit, perhaps, but never for longer than two days at most. i just absolutely hate it there. it's the most expensive city to live in the world even compared to hawaii. so all the outlying cities' rates skyrocket to nearly match san francisco's rates. it's dirty there. it's still california but too north to really compare with southern california where i was born and raised. it rains all the time!. in fact, in all the time i lived there, every single time we went to visit pier 39 it rained! it rained frogs! (meaning it rained very hard)
just not my cup of tea.
southern california is the place to see, baby! culture! music! sun!!! san diego has the zoo, wild animal park (which has some of the most awesome tours ever), sea world, and the museum square: 5 (i think) different museums in one square. and just minutes from the zoo itself! it has the last-stop train station that's the southernmost stop in california before heading on to mexico. you can take the train all the way up the california coastline, which is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful rides ever. and san diego has anderson's! (a restaurant who's split-pea soup is world famous and for a reason...it's delicious!)
L.A. has museums too, but it also has theatre and culture squares, olvera st. (one long avenue closed to motor traffic where every day is an immersion into the city's hispanic culture) the state-famous murals along the freeway (i'll get back to you on exactly which freeway it is), and the Forum, home of the Los Angeles Kings! plus, just an hour's drive from L.A. is Orange County (hooooome!), home of mickey mouse and knott's berry farm.
along knott's ave off the 91 freeway, (only minutes from where i grew up) you have the wax museum, wild bill's (very fun), medieval times, ripley's believe it or not, and knott's berry farm: the wildest adventure in the west, home of some of the wildest roller-coasters in california, and some pretty new and exciting rides. you like snoopy and the peanuts? go to knott's.
head east along the 91 and swing north on the 57 will take you to disneyland in short order, home of mickey and all things disney, and the new adventure park California: the Adventure, i believe it's called. i haven't been there yet, but that's only because i'm stuck here in washington and haven't had the money to go when i'm down home visiting!
and just minutes from disneyland, actually within sight of the park itself from the freeway, is the Arrowhead Pond, home of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks! *cheers* woo hoo! i'm telling you, folks, hockey's where it's at!
and of course, the msot charming aspect of orange county is that it's home. i grew up in the town next door to anaheim (disneyland) and lived in the same house until i got married at 20.
i am so in love with southern california.....
other neat places to visit include any of the southwestern states, like nevada, arizona, new mexico (breathtakingly beautiful), and texas. what can i say? my heart is in all things southwest, must be the mexican blood.
the rockies and the sierra nevadas are beautiful, too. lots of wildlife, clean air, open spaces to hike and camp and in general get back in touch with nature.
if you want american history, the 13 original colonial states are where you need to be. everything from the liberty bell in pennsylvania to gettisburgh. i've always wanted to see washington d.c. when the cherry trees were in full bloom. my mother says it's very beautiful, and the sweet scent of cherry blossoms is heavy on the breeze.
new york? never drive in new york. or san francisco. hell, or boston for that matter! absolute nightmares. unless, of course, you want the fear of god instilled into you and want to run a good chance of actually meeting your maker then.....by all means, drive in those cities! lol
boston was nice when i visited last december. i saw the original Cheers! anyone remember that show? i saw the actual place! lol and yes, i got a picture of the stadium where the boston bruins play (hockey hockey hockey!) didn't see much else. we only went for a short, overnight weekend stay. just something to do to get out of the house. :0)
and then, you could always visit wisconsin or michigan. the great lakes are wonderful in the summer, so i've heard. i wouldn't know yet, but i'm visiting wisconsin sometime later this year. i have a friend up there i wanna meet.
and across the great lakes is canada: the rose garden, victoria's island, and prince edward island (which i want to visit, thanks to reading anne too much! lol)
and anyway, i've spent way longer on this post than i intended, and the hatchling's getting impatient for my affections.
and yes, storm, i got your dragon pic! awesome!!!!! :0)
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