World (Vegas) Travel Thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

I can't wait.

[Munson]

Planning a country spanning road trip for next summer. New England will be out, that gets it's own trip, probably over spring break. Our plan is to not spend so much time in one place, and rather just hit as many places as humanly possible in a two month span, and then we can always plan longer vacations to the places we want to explore more in depth.

I'm color coding the planning in a notebook, I figure if I can do the planning right and take notes during the actual trip, I could probably turn it into a book.

If anyone has any recs on what to do in any national parks (we'll pretty much be hitting all the major ones minus Yosemite), throw em my way. I have a whole bunch of books from NatGeo on the parks, state parks, scenic drives, etc, but figure I'd throw it out there in case someone has something good to share. We'll be hitting a lot of big cities too, some just driving through/stopping to eat, and I'm using atlas obscura (cool website, definitely use it if you're going somewhere) as well as some other books to help me find shtein in the cities.

[hbionic]

A lot are on my bucket list:

-Grand Canyon, AZ
-Carlsbad Caverns, NM
-Sedona, AZ
-4-Corners marker
-Salt Lake City, UT
-Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, UT
-Lake Tahoe, NV
-Hoover Dam, NV
-Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, CA
-Cannery Row, Monterey, CA
-Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
-Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA
-Winchester House, San Jose, CA
-Sequoia National Park, CA
-Napa Valley, CA
-Yosemite National Park, CA

San Francisco area:
-Muir Woods
-Alcatraz
-Golden Gate and Bay Bridge
-Knob Hill
-Fishermans wharf
-twin peaks lookout
-lots n lots of other things here

Los Angeles area:
-Griffith Park observatory (near Hollywood sign)
-Venice Beach
-Santa Monica Pier
-Disneyland
-In-n-out Burger
-Sit in traffic on any of these monsters (405fwy, 10fwy, 101fwy)
-Manhattan Beach
-Huntington Beach

San Diego area:
-San Diego zoo
-Wild Animal Park
-Gas lamp district
-Coronado Bridge
-Old town San Diego
-Balboa Park

Tijuana, Mexico:
-Calle Revolucion (Adelita's)
-Mexican Jail
-Crossing back into the border (it's its own experience)
-Rosarito Beach
-Puerto Nuevo (lobster town)
-Ensenada
-Valle de Guadalupe (Vineyards)

[General_Failure]

-Mexican Jail

Man, she didn't look like no Federale.

[Rome]

Anywhere in the middle is out.  I would fly to Alaska, rent a car, then spend a month driving south to Tijuana.  The west coast of this country is unbelievably beautiful, especially NorCal.

[Munson]

The only things we're hitting in the middle are Badlands/Wind Cave/Mount Rushmore/Custer State Park in South Dakota on the way out, and Austin on the way back out east. Hitting the big National Parks in Wyoming on the way out and going through Utah and Colorado on the way back before shooting south through Texas on our way to New Orleans. Given Jay's reports on how much Houston sucks, I imagine we'll be driving right on by.

[MDS]

heading to vegas last weekend in sept for my buddies bachelor party

anyone want to give me some free shtein. hotels, markers, handjobs, etc.

[Seabiscuit36]

Went to Nashville for my brothers bachelor party, I can't stand country and yet had a great time.  Total surprise of a town. 

[Diomedes]

Backfarg states all have an Austin, where the folks who aren't welcome elsewhere--because they are gay, or intellectuals, or artists, etc.--congregate because for whatever reason they can't get all the way out, to NYC or LA, Seattle, Miami, etc.

[Munson]

Went to Nashville for my brothers bachelor party, I can't stand country and yet had a great time.  Total surprise of a town.

Girlfriend was there last weekend of July/First day of August with her college roommates, she basically said the same thing. The country music all over the place sucked but otherwise a super fun place.

[General_Failure]

Backfarg states all have an Austin, where the folks who aren't welcome elsewhere--because they are gay, or intellectuals, or artists, etc.--congregate because for whatever reason they can't get all the way out, to NYC or LA, Seattle, Miami, etc.

I'm having a hard time picturing any place in Mississippi for anyone that owns more than one shoe.

[Diomedes]

Jackson?  No?

[ice grillin you]

most college towns are going to be at least moderately liberal

[QB Eagles]

When you're talking politics it's easy to forget that a heavily red or blue state -- and I mean like Utah or Vermont -- is like 60-70% that color. There's always huge amounts of people who vote differently so it's kinda dumb to write off any state as a bunch of hicks or hippies. Pretty sure there are more conservatives in California than any other state and Texas is up near the top in absolute number of liberals.

I've been to just about every state and Mississippi is a way better place to live than the plains. And Oxford is a pretty good town.

[Diomedes]

Why is it that "red" states have well defined enclaves of liberal folk but the phenomenon doesn't occur in "blue" states. 

I'll say that I think it's because conservative people are farging awful violent ignorant dangerous motherfargers who will hurt you if they have the power to do it, so where they do, the ones they'd normally farg with, congregate.

But where the liberals have the numbers, the conservatives are not threatened, so they stay right where they are; they are not forced to flee, and flock, for protection.