I plan on visiting Boston next month and seeing all the historic stuff. Unfortunately, the USS Constitution will be out at sea (she is still a commissioned US Navy ship).

Walk the Freedom Trail. It's worth it. Also, my favorite thing in the city is at the Christian Science Center; the Mapparium. It's a hidden gem. If you're into museums, Isabella Stewart Gardner is really cool and make sure to walk in and just gawk at the Public Library facing Copley Square.

Lived in Boston from 1997 until 2013. Great, great, great little city.

Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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I live 6 miles away from Boston on the ocean go to the North End the Italian section and just walk around

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(07-05-2017 09:57 AM)Lush Wrote:  

(07-05-2017 09:41 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(07-05-2017 09:37 AM)Lush Wrote:  being a man isn't for everyone. i'll spend my grey and lean years in a northern wisconsin cabin. i'm thinking around the manitowish waters area

You might as well go to Alaska if that's what you like. No state taxes + an oil subsidy.

our living in alaska conversation lasted about a minute. the wife loves northern wisky though. it's still considerably quiet

(07-07-2017 07:30 AM)Stookey57 Wrote:  I live 6 miles away from Boston on the ocean go to the North End the Italian section and just walk around.
Take a Boston Harbor cruise see the whales in Gloucester

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(07-06-2017 09:54 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  Walk the Freedom Trail. It's worth it. Also, my favorite thing in the city is at the Christian Science Center; the Mapparium. It's a hidden gem. If you're into museums, Isabella Stewart Gardner is really cool and make sure to walk in and just gawk at the Public Library facing Copley Square.

Lived in Boston from 1997 until 2013. Great, great, great little city.

Thanks for the tips.

(07-06-2017 06:48 PM)Purplehook Wrote:  F*ck big Cities. People are annoying.

(07-06-2017 07:39 PM)pvtlamb Wrote:  I was in Wisconsin a few years ago and someone said that it hadn't hit 90 degrees in something like 8 years.

I realize Wichita is not in the Sun Belt, but jeez, my guess is that that has never been a year, recorded or not, that Kansas hasn't hit 90 degrees.

those plain states are doozies. i'm a product myself. born in north dakota yes i was. but the strangest thing, i've never been to south dakota and there is absolutely no reason why i shouldn't. absolutely no reason. the badlands are anticipation of what's to come. as is chimney rock. but you don't have to make it to the west. the wife and i are prairie freaks. the vast swaths of sky and land are as majestic as your purple's mountain majesty

Favorite US city to visit, easy....

Mt. Ida

(07-07-2017 06:36 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  Favorite US city to visit, easy....

Mt. Ida

(07-05-2017 09:37 AM)Lush Wrote:  being a man isn't for everyone. i'll spend my grey and lean years in a northern wisconsin cabin. i'm thinking around the manitowish waters area

Wow, I grew up riding in the the family truckster from Dallas to Mercer (Iron County, Flambeau Flowage, second black lake), the Loon Capital of the World. Beautiful country up there, and flies that will carry your small children away. Still get up there every few years.

(07-07-2017 06:39 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(07-07-2017 06:36 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  Favorite US city to visit, easy....

Mt. Ida

We have one of those in D.

(07-07-2017 07:42 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 09:54 PM)CornellCoog Wrote:  Walk the Freedom Trail. It's worth it. Also, my favorite thing in the city is at the Christian Science Center; the Mapparium. It's a hidden gem. If you're into museums, Isabella Stewart Gardner is really cool and make sure to walk in and just gawk at the Public Library facing Copley Square.

Lived in Boston from 1997 until 2013. Great, great, great little city.

Thanks for the tips.

No problem. Since you mentioned history, make sure to walk the Freedom Trail. You can do it without a guide and walk at your own pace. Just start at the Boston Common (park) and you'll see little shops were you can pick up a map. The trail is literally a red line that you follow through the city that takes you to all the important stuff. Time it so you can get lunch near the Old North Church (North End, Boston's Italian hood). Honestly, anywhere will be good there because bad food joints simply don't survive.

(07-07-2017 11:02 PM)smoo-z Wrote:  

(07-05-2017 09:37 AM)Lush Wrote:  being a man isn't for everyone. i'll spend my grey and lean years in a northern wisconsin cabin. i'm thinking around the manitowish waters area

Wow, I grew up riding in the the family truckster from Dallas to Mercer (Iron County, Flambeau Flowage, second black lake), the Loon Capital of the World. Beautiful country up there, and flies that will carry your small children away. Still get up there every few years.

yeah, that's the only downside. well and access to hospitals, airports. i'll need need is a coffee shop (which admittedly is rare up there) and a bar (which is not rare... miraculously i cannot say for certain that's true). i haven't been engulfed in one of these legendary swarms as of yet. barely missed em up in the u.p. do you have to wear a net on head just to be able to go out of doors? that's some manly stuff

(07-06-2017 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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Please don't tell me you think ATL is a great place to visit (I know, lived there). Take 285 and get the hell through. Same with Houston.

But agree on the others, plus add Charleston, Denver and Telluride (most amazing place I have seen). Bend OR is next...

(07-08-2017 10:00 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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Please don't tell me you think ATL is a great place to visit (I know, lived there). Take 285 and get the hell through. Same with Houston.

But agree on the others, plus add Charleston, Denver and Telluride (most amazing place I have seen). Bend OR is next...

Atlanta receives 35 million visitors per year. If you lived here and didn't like it you were doing it all wrong.

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(07-09-2017 07:36 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-08-2017 10:00 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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Please don't tell me you think ATL is a great place to visit (I know, lived there). Take 285 and get the hell through. Same with Houston.

But agree on the others, plus add Charleston, Denver and Telluride (most amazing place I have seen). Bend OR is next...

Atlanta receives 35 million visitors per year. If you lived here and didn't like it you were doing it all wrong.

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Four of which leave the airport by choice.

(07-09-2017 09:48 AM)fastbow Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 07:36 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-08-2017 10:00 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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Please don't tell me you think ATL is a great place to visit (I know, lived there). Take 285 and get the hell through. Same with Houston.

But agree on the others, plus add Charleston, Denver and Telluride (most amazing place I have seen). Bend OR is next...

Atlanta receives 35 million visitors per year. If you lived here and didn't like it you were doing it all wrong.

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Four of which leave the airport by choice.

I like the suburbs of Atlanta, but despise the city itself.

Places like Woodstock and Roswell are cool. But Atlanta proper? I'd rather not sit in bumper to bumper traffic for hours to go hang out in the extremely overrated Buckhead. Give me a small, clean city like Charlotte all day long over Atlanta.

(07-09-2017 02:27 PM)WhyIsTheRumGone Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 09:48 AM)fastbow Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 07:36 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-08-2017 10:00 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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Please don't tell me you think ATL is a great place to visit (I know, lived there). Take 285 and get the hell through. Same with Houston.

But agree on the others, plus add Charleston, Denver and Telluride (most amazing place I have seen). Bend OR is next...

Atlanta receives 35 million visitors per year. If you lived here and didn't like it you were doing it all wrong.

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Four of which leave the airport by choice.

I like the suburbs of Atlanta, but despise the city itself.

Places like Woodstock and Roswell are cool. But Atlanta proper? I'd rather not sit in bumper to bumper traffic for hours to go hang out in the extremely overrated Buckhead. Give me a small, clean city like Charlotte all day long over Atlanta.

Grew up in Memphis & it was home. Moved to Atlanta & didn't like it. Moved to Seattle, liked it. Moved back to Atlanta, didn't like it. Total of 39 yrs in Atlanta/Cobb/N Fulton & never liked it really. Lots to do, sure, but the traffic is awful, metro planning is awful. Live in "way out" Coweta Co/Newnan area which is considered metro now due to Atlanta sprawl, & really like this area with virtually no traffic & still only 40 mins to the airport. Biggest thing happening down here is high school FB with Hotlanta close enough for NFL, NBA, MLB, concerts etc when the urge hits. But Atlanta, yep, guess I've done it wrong for decades.....

(07-09-2017 07:36 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-08-2017 10:00 AM)isidnirb Wrote:  

(07-06-2017 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  Excluding Atlanta

Savannah
San Antonio
Ponte Vedra, FL
Chicago
Houston
Chattanooga

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Please don't tell me you think ATL is a great place to visit (I know, lived there). Take 285 and get the hell through. Same with Houston.

But agree on the others, plus add Charleston, Denver and Telluride (most amazing place I have seen). Bend OR is next...

Atlanta receives 35 million visitors per year. If you lived here and didn't like it you were doing it all wrong.

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that's also the problem, though...traffic and long lines=Atlanta