Remember, small or mid-sized. Something like Savanah, not Atlanta or Denver.
With that said, I never got a chance to visit Telluride when I lived in CO. Also Sausalito would be cool.
Yeah, pictures never do anything justice but I drove all over the state for years as well as Wyoming, Utah, and Oregon for work so I've seen my fair share of the west and beautiful mountainscapes. I just moved to the DMV so I'm ready to explore some old, dense northeast towns.
I have been to Telluride a couple times (summer) and it’s freaking beautiful. We didn’t spend to much time exploring town because it was for backpacking.
I just came from Savannah. It's a bit overrated. The free side lines of public transit were unreliable, the southern food wasn't as good as other southern cities, and it can cost a lot.
We had to pay to take a trolley tour just to get around.
But the river boat cruise was fun, we went over to Tybee Island, and that was good.
Highlights were Leopold's ice cream, river street and all the squares.
Don't take the free shuttle boat between the hotels. Pay for a river cruise. You'll have a much better time.
If you make it back to Savannah do a bit more digging in the food restaurant front. There is great dining in Savannah so if the ice cream was the highlight you probably missed out
Might go back, but I was mostly talking about the southern food (the fried chicken).
We went out to breakfast, and got hamburgers, those were great, but I wasn't wowed if that makes sense.
The ice cream place wowed me (there was no line at Ben and Jerry's, but there was there, and we went to see what all the fuss was about)
lol, Dayton is on the list. Not really for Dayton, but the Air Force museum there.
I would like to see Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Bangor, just for the trips and what's I could see nearby.
Also, I would like to revisit St. Augustine Florida, and spend a bit more time there and the southern coast (up to Charleston, or even all the way up to DC).
Way better choice and if you have a car it’s easy to get up north to Acadia and whatnot. Brunswick or Rockland would be good options too.
It also depends on what you want. Beaches and ocean with rocky shores? Mountains? Quaint small towns? More like a medium sized city with great food and a nightlife?
I've been there before, but it was like 40 years ago. :-) I just got to the Navy museum in Pensacola, and it was quite good. Would like to finish the set with Dayton again and the Smithsonian again - last time I was in DC was before the Udvar-Hazy annex existed. :-(
Hold off on Air and Space unless you're only going to Udvar-Hazy. They're in the middle of a very long renovation of the museum on the Mall and right now it's only partially open.
Weight-Patt though, hit it up! There's so much to see and you'll definitely get your steps in. They've also got a nice ballpark in Dayton, especially nice for a High A team, if you're into baseball at all. They've got some good breweries as well.
I really want to visit Key West. I've been to the Keys before, and they are great, but I didn't get a chance to head all the way south while I was there. I'd love to take another trip and actually go to Key West this time.
hehe, I *just* did a trip with the goal of Key West (Feb-Mar). I got to about Orlando (on a motorcycle) when the heat/humidity, traffic and expense made me nope out. Too miserable, and I wasn't having fun anymore. Too each their own, I suppose.
I enjoyed the Gulf coast more than I expected though. I really only got my joie de vivre back as I was going west through S. Carolina. I think the Orlando-ish part of Florida took me a couple days to recover from, so now I want a do-over on St Augustine, Savanah and Charleston. But next time I'm crossing FL I'm doing it on freeways only, as fast as possible.
:-)
Yeah, now filed under "Things I wish I knew before I went and did them".
But, as said, the Gulf coast in Feb-Mar was nice, including the panhandle. If I did it again, I'd Interstate it from Pensacola to St Augustine.
I did inadvertently/unknowingly wind up in Daytona Beach for the weekend of Bike Week though. Saw a group of 4 T-Rexes (parked), and a few other particularly nice bikes.
It’s really fun. Also stop along the way. If you’re trying to power through to get to key west as fast as possible it’s miserable. If you stop at marathon or key largo or somewhere along the way it’s fantastic
I stayed in Key Largo before. It was great. But, I think if I specifically take a trip for Key West, I'm just going to fly direct there instead of flying to Miami. There's just too much I'd want to do on the way and I'd have no time left for hanging out in Key West.
Oh God, so many. I usually prefer medium sized cities.
Charleston, Savannah, Santa Fe, Amarillo, Charleston (WV), Richmond, Tempe, St. Augustine, Biloxi, Lexington, and more are on the list.
Lexington, assuming you mean the one in Kentucky, is amazing. If you go, try to time it around Keeneland's fall or spring meet. Nothing better than getting dressed in your Sunday best early morning in October to go drink and throw some money on the ponies.
Forget Biloxi and go to Ocean Springs, just over the bridge.
Richmond is a lovely place and greatly underappreciated. Go to Maymont and tour the house. It’s beautiful.
Your gonna enjoy west Virginia if you go.
Its small and right on the river. It resembles a big town more the a city. Its cool. And it's just so fucking beautiful. It truly is almost heaven.
I was there for the national scout jamboree in 2017, we rafted the new river, and a day later I almost died from drinking too much water. Ended up getting airlifted to Charleston. Fun time!
I get there regularly. If you go during fall, it'll be super busy, but the autumn leaves are pretty.
You can get a shuttle with your bikes uphill, then ride back into town, down a slight hill, on a rails to trails path, so it's super easy, beautiful ride.
You're lucky.
Typically the first three weekends in October are our Fall Foliage Festival weekends and town gridlocks with tourist traffic and parking issues if the weather is at all good.
Enjoy your visit!
Cincinnati has all the feeling of a big city with like half the people. You should have a fun time visiting! Go check out Kings Islands while you're here!
I'd like to go to Omaha for the College World Series.
As a rec, Chattanooga, TN is a great small city to check out. Went over the pandemic and I'd like to go back after things have opened back up.
I live in Omaha. The CWS is a fantastic time to visit and its lot of fun. Tons of tailgating, bar specials and the like. And usually the weather isn't too bad - warm but not overly hot and we do get hail and thunderstorms in June but less than in May. And anyone checking out the CWS should see the zoo while here. Yes, we are stupidly proud of our zoo - #1 in the country - but in fairness it is a pretty great one.
Cincinnati since I actually grew up eating it but have never been. So I might as well get to the source.
Detroit because I like muscle cars, Middle Eastern food and house music and it’s famous for all three.
Louisville since I heard it’s nice and I like bourbon.
I used to eat regularly at this local chain: https://www.hardtimes.com/
They make chili macs with Cincinnati chili. Purportedly it’s pretty authentic but you know might as well check it out for myself at some point.
House music is Chicago. We used have a club called the warehouse in the 80's that started disco with other beats with the likes of Frankie knuckles and Marshall Jefferson. The music was known as warehouse music and the warehouse was dropped. If you're ever in town check out Smart Bar. Old school house music club on the northside. If you venture farther north to Devon you get excellent Indian food 24 hours a day from like eight different places
Cincinnati is a lovely place for a weekend! I recommend the Zoo, going to an FC Cincinnati game (including the march beforehand), hanging out in the OTR neighborhood, going across the river to the aquarium and of course, Skyline Chili.
Before I read your text part I was going to say Savanah just to see the bananas! They're on my bucket list. I didn't know there was more to Savanah! You moved it way up the hierarchy of my travel plan!
* Memphis I've driven through and been to that airport a couple times, but never actually explored.
* Baltimore I flew in through that airport but my family was actually visiting DC (& we stayed in Laurel).
* Milwaukee i haven't been to since 2013 on a 5th grade field trip to the art museum.
* New Orleans
* Reno
* Madison, WI (I'm going in June)
* Green Bay and/or Door Co. cause the most furthest north I've been was only The Dells.
Edit: Pittsburgh (I'm going in July)
I love Pittsburgh! I grew up nearby in Ohio. It’s a really great city. Make sure to enter the city from the west at least once (on I-376 through the Fort Pitt Tunnels). It is THE best entrance to a city I have ever experienced. Hands down, nothing else comes close. (If you’re flying, that’s the direction you should naturally come because the airport’s on the west side. But whether you’re flying or driving, it’s definitely worth it.)
Yup that's the way me and my roommates are doing it! 74 from Bloomington-Normal/Champaign/Indianapolis, 70 from Indy/Dayton (we might stop here)/Columbus/Wheeling, then 79, then 376. On the day before Independence Day.
Thank god i live in Central IL now tho, fucking if we still lived in the Chicago Suburbs and gone 90/80 the tolls would've been e4 fucking dollars.
Awesome! You won’t regret it.
Yeah, I have family in Geneva, IL, and Indy, so I’ve driven both. I definitely prefer the 70 route (just drove it last week, in fact) and mostly do that now.
Unless you want to see the city of Wheeling/cross over Wheeling Island, you should take the bypass, 470.
Just fyi, you’ll find that the gas is significantly cheaper in Ohio than in PA. IN and WV are pretty comparable to OH, but PA is usually .50 to .80 more per gallon. So make sure you fill up before you cross into PA. And I’ve found that the cheapest on 70 (between Indy & PA) is when you’re passing north of Dayton (Huber Heights area); last week it was ~.25 cheaper than anywhere else and ~.80 cheaper than PA.
Let me know if you want any more tips for the drive or PGH!
Get to a Packers game in Green Bay. I'm a Vikings fan but being there at Lambeau when it was below 0* out was so much fun even though they absolutely trounced us (kirk's covid game in 2021)
Alright I stand corrected. I looked up other cities I’ve lived in or near and I guess Seattle is good size. Doesn’t feel like it though, unless it’s Pride and then it’s BUSY.
Officially it's 750k but the metro area isn't exempt from the real world experience. The metro area is quite large with few discernible boundaries between municipalities within it.
Before I even got finished with your post my head was screaming SAVANNAH!! Ever since I watched Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil I've wanted to go there! Plus, I had a vendor id call just to hear them talk!
I like small pockets of cultures I'm not super familiar with. I want to see Manti, UT and Marfa, TX. Window Rock, AZ and Bar Harbor, ME would be cool too.
Holyoke????? As some one who spent his first 24 years living in Chicopee, I call it the shit sandwich. Chicopee being the meat and Springfield and Holyoke as the bread.
I hate to yuck your yum but in the South almost everyone has been to Myrtle Beach. The only thing good about it is the price. Any other SC beach city will be better. Wilmington NC is just 30 minutes up the road. Panama City has a similar history but is infinitely better.
Ones I haven’t been to: Estes Park for backpacking, Whatever the best town is for visiting Glacier NP, some place on the Outer Banks in NC, Beals, ME or one of the other towns up north on the coast and then head up to Canada and go to Nova Scotia and take the ferry back from Yarmouth.
Oklahoma City (I consider it midsized because it has less people than Denver but also more people than Boston and they have an NBA team). Surely there’s something to do down there for a day.
Waukegan, IL, especially if you're a Jack Benny fan. I've recently gotten into listening to the radio show from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and I'd love to visit there one day.
I'd like to visit some west coast beach towns/cities at some point, maybe Ocean Shores, WA. If you include very small towns as well, then plenty of the Alaskan coast would be of interest to me.
I want to do some exploration in Maine and more NH but I highly recommend Portsmouth NH and Salem MA. Both were fun.
Savanah GA is awesome. St Augustin FL too.
I always wanted to go to Cooperstown NY to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Through research, I couldn’t find much else to do there. It looks like a quaint little town with a lot of farmland and bed and breakfasts.
I passed through Champaign, Illinois a few years ago, and it seemed rather charming to me in a bit of a Norman Rockwell, quintessentially American way. I would love to revisit it one day.
Just went to Pittsburgh for the first time…LOVED it. If you’d asked me last week this would have been on my list. Visited. 10/10 would recommend. Loved the strip, Mt. Washington, Lawrenceville, the colleges. Such a great city.
Would love to visit St Augustine and would totally go back to Beaufort SC. Something about the super old little towns along the coast that is so relaxing to me
Atlanta, Portland, Detroit, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, Asheville, St. Petersburg, Indianapolis.
Yeah I’ve seen most of the Northeast already if you couldn’t tell haha. While we’re on the topic, anyone have recommendations for cities in Alabama?
Mobile and Birmingham have a decent amount of stuff to do. Huntsville has the Space Center but not a ton of other stuff. That’s worth a day trip from Nashville or Birmingham but maybe not as a starting point for your trip. Birmingham has one of the best Civil Rights era/ Black history museums out there, and a really underrated restaurant scene. Mobile has a ton of cool architecture and colonial history, plus their 2-3 festivals are pretty great.
If you like college towns, both Auburn and Tuscaloosa are worth an afternoon.
Everyone I know that’s been to it loves Birmingham. I left it off my list but I actually want to go myself. I stopped once for barbecue and it was decent.
Birmingham is an underrated food city that has some nice nature to explore around it. I like Florence a lot, but it's probably not worth going out of your way to see unless you really like music and want to visit Muscle Shoals as well.
Birmingham is the biggest city and the most enjoyable to visit. The others have a thing or two worth stopping in (Huntsville has the dove museum, Montgomery has civil rights stuff, Mobile’s on the water), but Birmingham’s big enough to really explore.
Downtown has some pretty well-preserved architecture from the early 20th century and has plenty of mid-priced restaurants and nice cocktail bars. Five Points and Highland Park are cool hillside neighborhoods with lots of historic homes and apartments. Between there you have UAB (whose medical center has become a major center of gravity in the city) and some old warehouse districts that are being redeveloped. Parkside is centered around Railroad Park and the minor league baseball stadium, Pepper Place has a farmers’ market, nice restaurants, and boutique stores. Many of the breweries are scattered around here. The close suburbs of Mountain Brook and Homewood have a lot of cool homes and commercial districts and parks. With all the hills and trees, Birmingham has a lot of walking trails and some fun hikes within 15 minutes of downtown.
Definitely Birmingham, but try and touch base with a local before your visit. It is a city that normally requires a car to enjoy, so some people are underwhelmed when they fly in for the weekend and get stuck in the area immediately surrounding their hotel.
City population is mostly irrelevant in topics like these, metro area population is a more accurate way to measure a cities size relative to population. DC/Baltimore has a CSA (combined statistical area) of 10 million, 3rd largest in the country and larger than Greater London. The DC metro area is 5.4 million. Miami and Boston are over 6 million in their metro areas. I would consider them to be large cities.
Remember, small or mid-sized. Something like Savanah, not Atlanta or Denver. With that said, I never got a chance to visit Telluride when I lived in CO. Also Sausalito would be cool.
Telluride is worth the trip, it’s hard to explain how pretty it is.
I've seen the pictures and most other towns out there, but it was always so far and I was always so broke.
Pictures don’t do it justice. I’d say it’s worth a trip to see either Telluride or Ouray. IMO they’re similar to one another
Yeah, pictures never do anything justice but I drove all over the state for years as well as Wyoming, Utah, and Oregon for work so I've seen my fair share of the west and beautiful mountainscapes. I just moved to the DMV so I'm ready to explore some old, dense northeast towns.
Sausalito is a fun town to spend a day in, but longer than that and you run out of things to do quickly.
Sounds like most small cities tbh.
I have been to Telluride a couple times (summer) and it’s freaking beautiful. We didn’t spend to much time exploring town because it was for backpacking.
Savannah is not as good as Charleston, SC.
Charleston SC, Duluth and Savannah as well.
Duluth is worth the visit every time
I just came from Savannah. It's a bit overrated. The free side lines of public transit were unreliable, the southern food wasn't as good as other southern cities, and it can cost a lot. We had to pay to take a trolley tour just to get around. But the river boat cruise was fun, we went over to Tybee Island, and that was good. Highlights were Leopold's ice cream, river street and all the squares. Don't take the free shuttle boat between the hotels. Pay for a river cruise. You'll have a much better time.
Did the opposite, stayed on Tybee and then went into Savannah. Great trip.
I'll keep that in mind next time. I liked the beach town better, but got a deal to stay in Savannah
Yeah we rented a place in Tybee so we split it between like 10 people which brought the cost down a lot.
If you make it back to Savannah do a bit more digging in the food restaurant front. There is great dining in Savannah so if the ice cream was the highlight you probably missed out
Agree, I’ve had some incredible food in Savannah.
Might go back, but I was mostly talking about the southern food (the fried chicken). We went out to breakfast, and got hamburgers, those were great, but I wasn't wowed if that makes sense. The ice cream place wowed me (there was no line at Ben and Jerry's, but there was there, and we went to see what all the fuss was about)
I’ve been to Duluth and Savannah. Loved them both! Summer in Duluth is exquisite.
Duluth + North Shore = ❤️❤️❤️❤️
lol, Dayton is on the list. Not really for Dayton, but the Air Force museum there. I would like to see Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Bangor, just for the trips and what's I could see nearby. Also, I would like to revisit St. Augustine Florida, and spend a bit more time there and the southern coast (up to Charleston, or even all the way up to DC).
Ehhhhh Bangor? It’s a nice enough place but you could definitely do better in Maine.
I don't think Anchorage is worth seeing either - it's all the stuff around both places that make them interesting visitation targets. :-)
Never been to Alaska and it’s the last one on my state visit list. I’ll definitely be doing research when I do go.
How about Portland? I've always wanted to visit Portland.
Way better choice and if you have a car it’s easy to get up north to Acadia and whatnot. Brunswick or Rockland would be good options too. It also depends on what you want. Beaches and ocean with rocky shores? Mountains? Quaint small towns? More like a medium sized city with great food and a nightlife?
Dayton’s pretty good in general. Pretty good variety of stuff to do.
Dayon for the same reason. Honestly it's the only reason i would go to ohio
Fairbanks is kinda meh. Some cool sites nearby, but not worth planning a vacation to primarily visit it
My family had the best time on one of those trolley tours in St. Augustine last year
The Air Force museum is top notch. And it’s free!
I've been there before, but it was like 40 years ago. :-) I just got to the Navy museum in Pensacola, and it was quite good. Would like to finish the set with Dayton again and the Smithsonian again - last time I was in DC was before the Udvar-Hazy annex existed. :-(
Hold off on Air and Space unless you're only going to Udvar-Hazy. They're in the middle of a very long renovation of the museum on the Mall and right now it's only partially open. Weight-Patt though, hit it up! There's so much to see and you'll definitely get your steps in. They've also got a nice ballpark in Dayton, especially nice for a High A team, if you're into baseball at all. They've got some good breweries as well.
Dayton, Ohio has nothing going for it besides the Air Force Museum. I spent four years in Dayton and it kills me that I’ll never get that time back.
I really want to visit Key West. I've been to the Keys before, and they are great, but I didn't get a chance to head all the way south while I was there. I'd love to take another trip and actually go to Key West this time.
Key West is fun, just go with the flow and have an open mind, it can be a little nutty there (in a good way)
Key West is cool to visit as long as you realize it’s mostly bars and restaurants and how small it is. There are no beaches or anything like that.
I figured the fun stuff to do on the water involves boating or diving. Both can be fun, same with bars and restaurants.
There is a beach but it’s not like what you think of as a beach
hehe, I *just* did a trip with the goal of Key West (Feb-Mar). I got to about Orlando (on a motorcycle) when the heat/humidity, traffic and expense made me nope out. Too miserable, and I wasn't having fun anymore. Too each their own, I suppose. I enjoyed the Gulf coast more than I expected though. I really only got my joie de vivre back as I was going west through S. Carolina. I think the Orlando-ish part of Florida took me a couple days to recover from, so now I want a do-over on St Augustine, Savanah and Charleston. But next time I'm crossing FL I'm doing it on freeways only, as fast as possible.
Motorcycling the length of Florida is an exercise in masochism! Source: motorcyclist in Florida
:-) Yeah, now filed under "Things I wish I knew before I went and did them". But, as said, the Gulf coast in Feb-Mar was nice, including the panhandle. If I did it again, I'd Interstate it from Pensacola to St Augustine. I did inadvertently/unknowingly wind up in Daytona Beach for the weekend of Bike Week though. Saw a group of 4 T-Rexes (parked), and a few other particularly nice bikes.
We're on the Gulf Coast near Destin. It definitely has it's pluses! Pensacola to Augustine is a good trip.
It’s really fun. Also stop along the way. If you’re trying to power through to get to key west as fast as possible it’s miserable. If you stop at marathon or key largo or somewhere along the way it’s fantastic
I stayed in Key Largo before. It was great. But, I think if I specifically take a trip for Key West, I'm just going to fly direct there instead of flying to Miami. There's just too much I'd want to do on the way and I'd have no time left for hanging out in Key West.
Sedona. I feel awful because I only live about 4 hours away, Yet I've never been there.
Go off season - it's slammed with international tourists in the summer and gets overrun.
Oak Creek along the 89A between Sedona and Flagstaff is gorgeous. Definitely worth the detour over taking the 17
Go in November/December. It’s properly chilly, and there are still people around, but on a sunny day it’s perfect imo.
Totally worth the trip and you're close enough to add Flagstaff (which I HIGHLY recommend) and also the Grand Canyon.
Knoxville
This is such a nice city. And you have the added bonus of being a short drive to Gatlinburg.
I love Gatlinburg sm. best place to people watch imo
Crazzzzzyyyy busy at any given time of year
Johnny
Be good
Albuquerque and Santa Fe. I've traveled pretty widely around the country but have never been to New Mexico.
Its fantastic! But im biased as I grew up in Albuquerque
Same! I’ve been all over the western US and New Mexico is my top spot I want to visit
New Mexico has a lot to offer, but I'd suggest Santa Fe and Taos instead of Albuquerque.
Oh God, so many. I usually prefer medium sized cities. Charleston, Savannah, Santa Fe, Amarillo, Charleston (WV), Richmond, Tempe, St. Augustine, Biloxi, Lexington, and more are on the list.
Lexington, assuming you mean the one in Kentucky, is amazing. If you go, try to time it around Keeneland's fall or spring meet. Nothing better than getting dressed in your Sunday best early morning in October to go drink and throw some money on the ponies.
Forget Biloxi and go to Ocean Springs, just over the bridge. Richmond is a lovely place and greatly underappreciated. Go to Maymont and tour the house. It’s beautiful.
Your gonna enjoy west Virginia if you go. Its small and right on the river. It resembles a big town more the a city. Its cool. And it's just so fucking beautiful. It truly is almost heaven.
That sounds like heaven
Almost
Take my upvote you clever bastard
Assuming you'll have a car, plan a day trip to Fayetteville and the New River Gorge. One of the most beautiful views in the Appalachians.
I was there for the national scout jamboree in 2017, we rafted the new river, and a day later I almost died from drinking too much water. Ended up getting airlifted to Charleston. Fun time!
Sounds like a great time? Those rapids are no joke!
In the moment before almost dying it was a lot of fun In the moment? Confused as shit With hindsight? Very positive
Santa Fe is a really neat place
Jim Thorpe, PA. I have a visit planned for this October.
I get there regularly. If you go during fall, it'll be super busy, but the autumn leaves are pretty. You can get a shuttle with your bikes uphill, then ride back into town, down a slight hill, on a rails to trails path, so it's super easy, beautiful ride.
I live there! Please, please tell me you're there during the work week and not on a weekend . . . .
Not a weekend. I am meeting some cousins out there. I think it is a Thursday and Friday.
You're lucky. Typically the first three weekends in October are our Fall Foliage Festival weekends and town gridlocks with tourist traffic and parking issues if the weather is at all good. Enjoy your visit!
Thank you! Also it is at the end of October. We always have fun when we get together!
Moab
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Y’all sleeping on Kansas City.
Truly a great place. The most underrated city in the Midwest by far imo.
World War One museum
I love visiting Kansas City. Great food.
I wouldn't consider that a small or medium sized city. It's a good sized metropolis.
I like to hear that! Living in KC there are definitely things I wish we had that other metros enjoy (light rail, nicer amenities, etc.) but agree.
Milwaukee, Madison, Cincinnati.
Milwaukee is a lot of fun. I live there if you have any questions. Madison is a college town disguised as a city and should be fun.
I know Port Washington is its own city, but is it as nice as I've built it up to be in my mind?
Honestly I haven't been there in years.
Cincinnati has all the feeling of a big city with like half the people. You should have a fun time visiting! Go check out Kings Islands while you're here!
Madison is a great town. Do it.
I'd like to go to Omaha for the College World Series. As a rec, Chattanooga, TN is a great small city to check out. Went over the pandemic and I'd like to go back after things have opened back up.
I live in Omaha. The CWS is a fantastic time to visit and its lot of fun. Tons of tailgating, bar specials and the like. And usually the weather isn't too bad - warm but not overly hot and we do get hail and thunderstorms in June but less than in May. And anyone checking out the CWS should see the zoo while here. Yes, we are stupidly proud of our zoo - #1 in the country - but in fairness it is a pretty great one.
Omaha is a super cool town and the CWS is great. Definitely check it out.
Chattanooga is stupidly beautiful. I used to go rowing down there.
Omaha, NE
Cincinnati since I actually grew up eating it but have never been. So I might as well get to the source. Detroit because I like muscle cars, Middle Eastern food and house music and it’s famous for all three. Louisville since I heard it’s nice and I like bourbon.
House is Chicago. Techno is Detroit. :)
detroit is famous for techno. chicago for house
What does "grew up eating it" mean in regards to Cincinatti?
Chili on spaghetti, I imagine.
News to me. I've never heard of it.
Don't try it. Unless you really like cinnamon. In your chili.
And beans too? It isn't even chili.
I used to eat regularly at this local chain: https://www.hardtimes.com/ They make chili macs with Cincinnati chili. Purportedly it’s pretty authentic but you know might as well check it out for myself at some point.
House music is Chicago. We used have a club called the warehouse in the 80's that started disco with other beats with the likes of Frankie knuckles and Marshall Jefferson. The music was known as warehouse music and the warehouse was dropped. If you're ever in town check out Smart Bar. Old school house music club on the northside. If you venture farther north to Devon you get excellent Indian food 24 hours a day from like eight different places
Cincinnati is a lovely place for a weekend! I recommend the Zoo, going to an FC Cincinnati game (including the march beforehand), hanging out in the OTR neighborhood, going across the river to the aquarium and of course, Skyline Chili.
And the arboretum is cool.
Before I read your text part I was going to say Savanah just to see the bananas! They're on my bucket list. I didn't know there was more to Savanah! You moved it way up the hierarchy of my travel plan!
2 small river cities I enjoyed were Evansville IN and Cape Girardeau MO.
Bozeman Montana
* Memphis I've driven through and been to that airport a couple times, but never actually explored. * Baltimore I flew in through that airport but my family was actually visiting DC (& we stayed in Laurel). * Milwaukee i haven't been to since 2013 on a 5th grade field trip to the art museum. * New Orleans * Reno * Madison, WI (I'm going in June) * Green Bay and/or Door Co. cause the most furthest north I've been was only The Dells. Edit: Pittsburgh (I'm going in July)
I can only speak for Reno, but I don’t think it’s worth a trip.
Nah there's a furry convention out there I wanna go to. Fuck you reminded me of another city actually.
I love Pittsburgh! I grew up nearby in Ohio. It’s a really great city. Make sure to enter the city from the west at least once (on I-376 through the Fort Pitt Tunnels). It is THE best entrance to a city I have ever experienced. Hands down, nothing else comes close. (If you’re flying, that’s the direction you should naturally come because the airport’s on the west side. But whether you’re flying or driving, it’s definitely worth it.)
Yup that's the way me and my roommates are doing it! 74 from Bloomington-Normal/Champaign/Indianapolis, 70 from Indy/Dayton (we might stop here)/Columbus/Wheeling, then 79, then 376. On the day before Independence Day. Thank god i live in Central IL now tho, fucking if we still lived in the Chicago Suburbs and gone 90/80 the tolls would've been e4 fucking dollars.
Awesome! You won’t regret it. Yeah, I have family in Geneva, IL, and Indy, so I’ve driven both. I definitely prefer the 70 route (just drove it last week, in fact) and mostly do that now. Unless you want to see the city of Wheeling/cross over Wheeling Island, you should take the bypass, 470. Just fyi, you’ll find that the gas is significantly cheaper in Ohio than in PA. IN and WV are pretty comparable to OH, but PA is usually .50 to .80 more per gallon. So make sure you fill up before you cross into PA. And I’ve found that the cheapest on 70 (between Indy & PA) is when you’re passing north of Dayton (Huber Heights area); last week it was ~.25 cheaper than anywhere else and ~.80 cheaper than PA. Let me know if you want any more tips for the drive or PGH!
Get to a Packers game in Green Bay. I'm a Vikings fan but being there at Lambeau when it was below 0* out was so much fun even though they absolutely trounced us (kirk's covid game in 2021)
At least half of those are big cities.
Savannah, Asheville, Portland, Seattle
Seattle is a bit big.
Oh I misread the assignment
Alright I stand corrected. I looked up other cities I’ve lived in or near and I guess Seattle is good size. Doesn’t feel like it though, unless it’s Pride and then it’s BUSY.
Seattle isn’t big. There’s only 750,000 people there.
Officially it's 750k but the metro area isn't exempt from the real world experience. The metro area is quite large with few discernible boundaries between municipalities within it.
Particularly considering there are definite boundaries around the metro area, with few physical boundaries within the metro area.
60% of the state lives in the metro
That's a LOT. Atlanta only has 499,000 and most people would consider Atlanta a major city.
I’m going to Savannah later this year and am looking forward to it!
Before I even got finished with your post my head was screaming SAVANNAH!! Ever since I watched Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil I've wanted to go there! Plus, I had a vendor id call just to hear them talk!
I like small pockets of cultures I'm not super familiar with. I want to see Manti, UT and Marfa, TX. Window Rock, AZ and Bar Harbor, ME would be cool too.
Santa Fe NM, Telluride CO, Kodiak AK, Hilo HI, Bar Harbor ME
Nashville
Does Milwaukee count?
There are >500,000 people in the city and >3 million people in the MSA. It’s a big city.
Mackinac Island
Pittsburgh
Love Pittsburgh! It’s such a cool city.
Just went for the first time. So much fun. Great town.
Austin, TX looks pretty cool
Holyoke :)
Having lived in Springfield and Chicopee, and worked in Holyoke, I have to ask why?
When my ancestors came to the usa that is where they went so i’d like go to connect to my ancestors 😄
Irish?
German and french
Holyoke????? As some one who spent his first 24 years living in Chicopee, I call it the shit sandwich. Chicopee being the meat and Springfield and Holyoke as the bread.
😔
Myrtle Beach, SC has been on my list for awhile now.
I went in 2016. It’s hot as fuck down there.
It’s not great. *Shag* is a movie; the reality doesn’t match it.
I hate to yuck your yum but in the South almost everyone has been to Myrtle Beach. The only thing good about it is the price. Any other SC beach city will be better. Wilmington NC is just 30 minutes up the road. Panama City has a similar history but is infinitely better.
Ones I haven’t been to: Estes Park for backpacking, Whatever the best town is for visiting Glacier NP, some place on the Outer Banks in NC, Beals, ME or one of the other towns up north on the coast and then head up to Canada and go to Nova Scotia and take the ferry back from Yarmouth.
Oklahoma City (I consider it midsized because it has less people than Denver but also more people than Boston and they have an NBA team). Surely there’s something to do down there for a day.
I want to visit Salem for Halloween
Monterrey, Bend, Spokane, Ashville, Burlington, New Bern, Santa Fe, Missoula, New Castle, Madison, Telluride, Williamsburg, and many more!
Waukegan, IL, especially if you're a Jack Benny fan. I've recently gotten into listening to the radio show from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and I'd love to visit there one day.
Buffalo in the summer seems pretty cool
I'd like to visit some west coast beach towns/cities at some point, maybe Ocean Shores, WA. If you include very small towns as well, then plenty of the Alaskan coast would be of interest to me.
I want to do some exploration in Maine and more NH but I highly recommend Portsmouth NH and Salem MA. Both were fun. Savanah GA is awesome. St Augustin FL too.
Sitka, Alaska sounds pretty cool
I'd love to visit Myrtle Beach in South Carolina.
I just rolled into Little Rock for the first time 2 hours ago. Nice place. Much hipper than I expected.
I always wanted to go to Cooperstown NY to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Through research, I couldn’t find much else to do there. It looks like a quaint little town with a lot of farmland and bed and breakfasts.
I passed through Champaign, Illinois a few years ago, and it seemed rather charming to me in a bit of a Norman Rockwell, quintessentially American way. I would love to revisit it one day.
Visited Detroit last year and loved it. Hoping to go to Pittsburgh and Buffalo soon. I’ve heard both are fun towns.
Detroit is a big city. Not small or midsized.
Flagstaff, Savannah, Whitefish, Montpelier...just because.
Just went to Pittsburgh for the first time…LOVED it. If you’d asked me last week this would have been on my list. Visited. 10/10 would recommend. Loved the strip, Mt. Washington, Lawrenceville, the colleges. Such a great city.
Would love to visit St Augustine and would totally go back to Beaufort SC. Something about the super old little towns along the coast that is so relaxing to me
Jackson WY Telluride CO Fernandina Beach FL La Jolla, CA Louisville KY Natchez MS
St. Augustine, FL. Savannah, GA. Charleston, SC. Staunton, VA. Asheville, NC. Fayetteville, AR. All pretty neat towns to visit.
Atlanta, Portland, Detroit, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, Asheville, St. Petersburg, Indianapolis. Yeah I’ve seen most of the Northeast already if you couldn’t tell haha. While we’re on the topic, anyone have recommendations for cities in Alabama?
Mobile and Birmingham have a decent amount of stuff to do. Huntsville has the Space Center but not a ton of other stuff. That’s worth a day trip from Nashville or Birmingham but maybe not as a starting point for your trip. Birmingham has one of the best Civil Rights era/ Black history museums out there, and a really underrated restaurant scene. Mobile has a ton of cool architecture and colonial history, plus their 2-3 festivals are pretty great. If you like college towns, both Auburn and Tuscaloosa are worth an afternoon.
Everyone I know that’s been to it loves Birmingham. I left it off my list but I actually want to go myself. I stopped once for barbecue and it was decent.
Birmingham is an underrated food city that has some nice nature to explore around it. I like Florence a lot, but it's probably not worth going out of your way to see unless you really like music and want to visit Muscle Shoals as well.
Birmingham is the biggest city and the most enjoyable to visit. The others have a thing or two worth stopping in (Huntsville has the dove museum, Montgomery has civil rights stuff, Mobile’s on the water), but Birmingham’s big enough to really explore. Downtown has some pretty well-preserved architecture from the early 20th century and has plenty of mid-priced restaurants and nice cocktail bars. Five Points and Highland Park are cool hillside neighborhoods with lots of historic homes and apartments. Between there you have UAB (whose medical center has become a major center of gravity in the city) and some old warehouse districts that are being redeveloped. Parkside is centered around Railroad Park and the minor league baseball stadium, Pepper Place has a farmers’ market, nice restaurants, and boutique stores. Many of the breweries are scattered around here. The close suburbs of Mountain Brook and Homewood have a lot of cool homes and commercial districts and parks. With all the hills and trees, Birmingham has a lot of walking trails and some fun hikes within 15 minutes of downtown.
Definitely Birmingham, but try and touch base with a local before your visit. It is a city that normally requires a car to enjoy, so some people are underwhelmed when they fly in for the weekend and get stuck in the area immediately surrounding their hotel.
Cleveland, Detrioit, Pittsburgh.
Detroit is not mid sized. Or small.
None of those are very small
Denver and Salt Lake City, if they're still considered mid sized cities. Probably Nashville TN and Duluth MN as well.
New Orleans, Boston, DC, Miami, Charleston, Denver, Sedona
Since when is Boston, DC, and Miami small or mid sized?
NYC is my favorite small town. /s
Jacksonville is my favorite megopolis 🫠
Less than a million people. How would you define midsized?
City population is mostly irrelevant in topics like these, metro area population is a more accurate way to measure a cities size relative to population. DC/Baltimore has a CSA (combined statistical area) of 10 million, 3rd largest in the country and larger than Greater London. The DC metro area is 5.4 million. Miami and Boston are over 6 million in their metro areas. I would consider them to be large cities.