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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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MANDRL
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: South Korea
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I saw some other posters mentioning San Diego so I guess I should mention some places you should hit up if you go there.
1) Old Town San Diego
This is a nice little tourist place with old shops and some museum like buildings such as the old post office and school house. But you would be going here for the food. There are lots of great Mexican food places. I would recommend going to the Old Town Mexican Cafe (http://www.oldtownmexcafe.com).
2) Gaslamp District
This is downtown San Diego and you would want to go there at night. There are a lot of nice little restaurants from Italian, Brazilian, Mexican, American, whatever you want. There are of course a lot of bars and clubs if that is your thing. If you go to the Hyatt hotel, you can go to the top stories and there are some nice bar/lounges there which have a great scenic view of the city. Locals call it going to the 'top of the Hyatt'.
3) Seaport Village
This is a nice little place to stroll along next to the ocean. They have some tourist shops and restaurants, mostly seafood. You can take short cruises around the bay. If you are staying in San Diego overnight you can take a Hornblower Cruise (http://www.hornblower.com). These are 3 hour sea excursions which include a nice dinner and dancing.
4) Coronado Island
Take the Coronado Bridge over to Coronado Island from downtown San Diego and you can basically walk around some nice shops, go to parks or to some different beaches. There are some really nice restaurants here and I would suggest a place called Peohes (http://www.peohes.com).
There are of course a million other things, but those are all places I take friends or family that visit. Any questions, just ask! |
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newton kabiddles
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Not much to say....take her to what she likes. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Niagara Falls, no question. It's beautiful any time of year, but it's especially amazing if you can go during the winter when it's partially frozen. And definitely check out the Canadian side (admittedly the prettier side). I don't know how well traveled your wife is, but my K-girlfriend definitely got a kick out of being able to walk across the bridge to another country, something Koreans can't do (yet).
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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Juneau Alaska, Nashville, Tupelo Mississipi, Cheyanne Wyoming, Kelogg Idaho. Eagle River Wisconsin.
Drives - Montana Interstate has no speed limit, great scenery. |
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The Bobster
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Drives - Montana Interstate has no speed limit, great scenery. |
Once drove the interstate between Reno and Winnemucca, about 2 hours, probably three. It was a baby blue Camaro, pretty mint at less thana year old, and I put it at as full throttle as I felt safe to do, and the road is so flat and smooth that I had it up to 120 mph quite often.
Put the radio on SCAN, and the sucker just kept goin' round and round, never finding a radio signal in all that desert. After 20 minutes I forgot about it, and just reveled in the sound of air going past the vehicle ...
Finally it did find a station: "You will hear the WORD of JAYZUSS and you WILL succumb and bow DOWN ..."
Switched it off. The sound of air moving quickly past the smooth exterior of a a fast-moving American car in the open desert is better than a lot of things you might otherwise have to hear. If you have a choice of what to listen to, you will make the right one.
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| [I]magine you are going to visit your American home for perhaps just one more time -- what things will you regret having never seen? ...but I don't plan to go back, except to look around...I ain't setting foot on American soil until that ASS is out of the White House. |
Good question. Since you prefaced it with irrelevance, I will preface my response with a response to your irrelevance: leaving your country for national politics that simply do not affect your everyday life is beyond extremism. No different than Republican leaders who refused to pay America's United Nation's dues because they refused to tolerate birth-control and "family-planning" in subSaharan Africa or some other trivial nonsense. Extremism.
So I hope you do not set foot on American soil again -- even as a tourist. One less extremist in our political discourse.
That being said, besides Key West and Coastal California, you or anyone else interested in exploring America ought to consider the Southwest, especially the Four-Corners Area: Mesa Verde National Park.
Anasazi cliff apartments.
Also see New Mexico and Arizona's Grand Canyon area. Horseback is available and recommended. While the latter needs no explanation, here is what I recommend in the former: Santa Fe andCarsbad Caverns National Park.
Nice, deep, fascinating caves.
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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h ooker, oklahoma,
nothing, arizona
santa claus, arizona
santa claus, indiana
baker, california (largest thermometer in the world)
lynchburg, tennesse (jack daniel's distillery baby)
liberal, kansas (home of the dorothy house)
paris, texas
houston (only to see the orange show and beer can house)
tombstone, arizona
dodge city, kansas
i've been to all of these places except santa claus, indiana, but i'm sure it's almost exactly like santa claus, arizona and also not been to paris, texas, but who'd want to miss the cowboy eifell tower? |
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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No Name Key, Fl
Enchanted Rock, Texas
San Marcos, Texas
Ginnie Springs, Florida |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony_Balony wrote: |
| Drives - Montana Interstate has no speed limit, great scenery. |
I drove through there during the evening with a night sky as wide and vast as the land without a soul or city or light pole in sight. I parked my car, sat on the hood proped-up on the windshield and just stared and marveled at it all. It was grand. Also along that east-west highway are places like Mount Rushmore, Devils Tower (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), Yellowstone National Park and Custer's Last Stand (Battle of Little Bighorn National Monument) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bighorn_Battlefield_National_Monument
Each worth a good half-hour visit at least and then continue on your way. |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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No Name Key, Fl
Enchanted Rock, Texas
San Marcos, Texas
Ginnie Springs, Florida |
San Marcos?? Not much there besides the University!! Unless you know something I don't, and please do tell.  |
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merlot
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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No Name Key, Fl
Enchanted Rock, Texas
San Marcos, Texas
Ginnie Springs, Florida |
San Marcos?? Not much there besides the University!! Unless you know something I don't, and please do tell. |
The San Marcos River bubbles up from the middle of town and is crystal clear spring water that maintains a year round temp of 68 degree F.
Snorkeling down the river you will experience tons of plant life, fish, turtles and more. Something like over one-half of all live aquarium plants sold in the states come from this river.
If you choose to kickback and relax on an inner tube and float down the river with an ice chest in tow, it's a fun, beautiful day. There are parts you will cruise through where you could imagine it being the Amazon.
There's a railroad bridge to stop and dive off of. There are beautiful parks on the way and the people that rented you your inner tube will pick you up and the end of your journey and take you back where you launched.
It's an amazing clear natural springs river that is not to be missed if you're ever in the Texas hill country. |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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No Name Key, Fl
Enchanted Rock, Texas
San Marcos, Texas
Ginnie Springs, Florida |
San Marcos?? Not much there besides the University!! Unless you know something I don't, and please do tell. |
The San Marcos River bubbles up from the middle of town and is crystal clear spring water that maintains a year round temp of 68 degree F.
Snorkeling down the river you will experience tons of plant life, fish, turtles and more. Something like over one-half of all live aquarium plants sold in the states come from this river.
If you choose to kickback and relax on an inner tube and float down the river with an ice chest in tow, it's a fun, beautiful day. There are parts you will cruise through where you could imagine it being the Amazon.
There's a railroad bridge to stop and dive off of. There are beautiful parks on the way and the people that rented you your inner tube will pick you up and the end of your journey and take you back where you launched.
It's an amazing clear natural springs river that is not to be missed if you're ever in the Texas hill country. |
ahh, i tend to go to new braunfels for that. 
i still have to get out to enchanted rock one of these days. by the time i wake up, they've already closed the gate. |
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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No Name Key, Fl
Enchanted Rock, Texas
San Marcos, Texas
Ginnie Springs, Florida |
San Marcos?? Not much there besides the University!! Unless you know something I don't, and please do tell. |
The San Marcos River bubbles up from the middle of town and is crystal clear spring water that maintains a year round temp of 68 degree F.
Snorkeling down the river you will experience tons of plant life, fish, turtles and more. Something like over one-half of all live aquarium plants sold in the states come from this river.
If you choose to kickback and relax on an inner tube and float down the river with an ice chest in tow, it's a fun, beautiful day. There are parts you will cruise through where you could imagine it being the Amazon.
There's a railroad bridge to stop and dive off of. There are beautiful parks on the way and the people that rented you your inner tube will pick you up and the end of your journey and take you back where you launched.
It's an amazing clear natural springs river that is not to be missed if you're ever in the Texas hill country. |
ahh, i tend to go to new braunfels for that.
i still have to get out to enchanted rock one of these days. by the time i wake up, they've already closed the gate. |
Yes, New brunfels is nice as well. We have a cabin on the lake there. That's were we mostly water ski and party and eat good German food. |
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