It's T-minus three weeks and counting before we blast off to Colorado, so Big Bore and I started our packing list this morning. I've vacationed through 47 states so consider myself an expert on the best and worse places to experience in the United States. Here are some I never wish to see again:1. White Sands, New Mexico (aka: Hell Hole, New Mexico)--This is a military base/missile range. It is hot, ugly desert with some hills in the background. Don't ask me why I was there. The story is too long, just like the weekend I spent there. White Sands is even worse than Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which is also a hell hole, but at least it has a lake. Or was that just a mirage?
2. Coastal Georgia/Florida--This whole area smells like I don't-know-what...sweet insecticide? After inhaling it for hours (I was on the back of a motorcycle), I became light-headed and about fell onto the pavement.
3. Louisiana bayo
u country--If you've seen one alligator, you've seen them all, plus there are these big rat-looking critters called nutria scattering about. Our Cajun tour guide fed the 'gators doughnuts and taunted them with his ugly bare feet. I kept rooting for the reptiles. Also, it didn't help that we had a dear pregnant woman on our boat who repeatedly had to make barf stops. Of course, she may have just been expressing her opinion of Louisiana, in which case, my sentiments exactly.
u country--If you've seen one alligator, you've seen them all, plus there are these big rat-looking critters called nutria scattering about. Our Cajun tour guide fed the 'gators doughnuts and taunted them with his ugly bare feet. I kept rooting for the reptiles. Also, it didn't help that we had a dear pregnant woman on our boat who repeatedly had to make barf stops. Of course, she may have just been expressing her opinion of Louisiana, in which case, my sentiments exactly.4. Houston, Texas--Too hot, too humid, too much crime. When a TV newscaster reported a jogger had been found dead in a park, minus hands and feet, I called off my 3-mile run and decided it was time to move on down the road.
5. Los Angeles--T
he traffic is absolutely nuts. You couldn't drag me back. At Disneyland I saw an atrraction called, "It's a Small World After All." It should be re-named: "It's a Smoggy, Over-Populated, Maniac World in Southern California and I want to go back to Kansas!"
he traffic is absolutely nuts. You couldn't drag me back. At Disneyland I saw an atrraction called, "It's a Small World After All." It should be re-named: "It's a Smoggy, Over-Populated, Maniac World in Southern California and I want to go back to Kansas!"Trust me. If you ever have the above places on your travel itinerary, turn back immediately! My suggestion is: rip up your map and GET LOST!
2 comments:
I agree totally with LA and Louisiana!! I can't figure out why people love New Orleans, apart from good food (which you can get everywhere!!)It always smelled like mold and urine to me.
I'd add New York City. I know it's "THE" place for lots of cultural and sports things, but I spent a month there in med school doing a rotation---and it sure as he** wasn't Kansas!!! Everyone is crazy, stinks (I must have a smell thing), and all the drivers are trying to hit you. I guess growing up in KS spoiled me for small town living.
Here are some of my fav places:
1. Philmont Scout Ranch and Taos. Oops! They are in New Mexico.
2.Atlanta, Stone Mountain, and Norcross. Oops! They are in Georgia.
3. Lake Ponchatraine and Mandeville. Oops! They are in New Orleans. And crawdads on the pier eaten hot and salty out of a paper sack are a true delight at sunset.
4. Texas A&M, Austin, Corsicana, Dallas and Ft. Worth. Oops! That would be Texas.
5. Hotel Portofino in Redondo Beach, North to Santa Barbara, South to Long Beach and the Queen Mary, West to Catalina Island and the beautiful Pacific Ocean and East to Anahiem. Oops! That would be LA, Ca.
And then there is New York. Where do I begin? Broadway, the Eugene O'Neill theatre, Sardi's for dinner, Circle Line, the Empire State Buidling, the Cloisters, Central Park boat pond, Grand Central Station, Macy's, FAO Swartz, St. Pat's Cathedral, Madison Avenue, 47th Street Photo, Times Square, Museum of the American Indian, the Folk Art Museum, Harlem, the Museum of Natural History, MOMA, the Guggenheim, Canal Street, Veranzano Narrows, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, Sawmill River Parkway, the Pallisades--that's a good start.
I'm sure you get the idea.
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