PLEASE READ THIS! where do you live and what is the best thing about it?

Question

i have a friend who wants to travel but wants to see places that the residents think are special. shes trying to shy away from mainstream and wants normal peoples advice about where they live. what to watch out for, lifestyle, people etc. i guess im trying to make the perfect travel guide for her. i will print all your answers and make them into a little reference book for her

Answer 1

I live up in the very northwestern corner of california, right on the coast. Our town is very small, only 10,000 people or so. It's a very nice area to see. Just 10 minutes inland in either direction we have the giant redwoods. They are absolutely amazing. We have a place called the trees of mystery, you go up in a glass sky box to the tops of the trees. The weather here is pretty much 60 degrees year round, so it never gets too hot. Our ocean and beaches are clean and beautiful. You can build a small fire on the beach at night if you want. We have some of the best clam chowder around at a restaurant in the harbor called the chartroom. You can also get some killer fish n chips or whatever your seafood heart dersires. We have the smith river that runs through here, in the summer we go there (it's also in the middle of the redwoods) 2-3 times per week. Gets up to 100 degrees there. You can charter a tourist boat for about $60 for the day & go out on the ocean fishing, or you can for about $100 per day go on a jet boat up the smith river & have brunch. It's really fun here on the 4th of july. We have about 10-15,000 extra tourists in town to see our parade & our fireworks show. They come for the fireworks because we have the biggest show on the whole west coast (We have such a large harbor with nothing around it that we can have 25mm shells- S.F. can only have your standard 16mm). The people here are very nice, when you go into any store, the clerks are always very helpful & will talk with you. Tell your friend to come on through, they won't be dissapointed.

Answer 2

I live in San Diego, California, the greatest thing about this place, is that everything is so close. by that I mean, I live 15 minutes from the beach, 50 minutes from the San Diego mountains, a few hours from the Sierra Mountains, Big Sur, Death Valley, Joshua Tree and so on. I just returned from a cross country road trip from New York to California and found that although the other states are great, no others come close to what we have in California. let me know if you have any other questions about places, I have traveled far and near. Later

Answer 3

I like the idea (I’d thought of it as well), and I also think some of the requirements for life mentioned by some of the other respondents (such as cellular structure or a nervous system) aren’t or shouldn’t be requirements. But one respondent did make a good point that fire isn’t subject to evolution. For that you need imperfectly inherited characteristics, and one spark is the same as any other with regard to the type of fire it can start. So fire has metabolism without imperfectly inherited characteristics; viruses (and chain letters) have imperfectly inherited characteristics without metabolism; and living things (including the very earliest living things that might have lacked DNA or even a cellular structure) have both. And your biology teacher needs to lighten up. :-)

Answer 4

I live in Speedway, Indiana. It's a small town just west of Indianapolis where the Indianapolis 500, U.S. Grand Prix and Allstate 400 (formerly Brickyard 400) are held.

The best thing about Speedway is the races. Even though I am not into auto racing, the nights before the races are incredible. Apparently, Spike tv, Maxim magazine and a bunch of other places named the "night before the Indy 500" as one of the top ten things you should experience before you die.

Answer 5

If you're ready (or have money) to come to Europe, my country has a lot of nice beaches, lots of monuments and, most of all, lots of friendly people (me included).
You can go on hikes through the wild country or stay in rural houses and be served with traditional food.
You can do surf, kite-surf, windsurf, whatever, play golf... Interested?
I live in Portugal, which is sometimes called "the country planted by the sea" (rough translation from an old Portuguese saying).
Need I say more?

Answer 6

St Petersburg, Florida It is near the beaches and about 22 miles from Clearwater Beach which is noted for Pier 60, a very good place to do a little fishing and they have a Sunset Party about every day if it doesn't rain which is very seldom.

Answer 7

I live in New York City.

The Best thing: Stores and Restaurants don't close at dusk.You can be in Times Square at 2 in the morning and everything will still be open.

NY is the best place on Earth to shop seriously.

Answer 8

I live in Miami........I hate it so I can't really think about anything.....obviously the beach, even though it's a very touristy thing to do but everyone here goes the beach every chance they get. The everglades is also awesome! We once did this thing were we rode like 15 miles in a bicycle in the everglades and we passed alligators the entire way, it was kind of scary but really fun.

Answer 9

I live in the suburbs of Salt Lake City Utah. I guess one of the interesting things about it is everyone is Mormon. If you aren't a member of the Mormon church, it is fun to learn about it. There is Temple Square (where one of the LDS temples is) which is pretty fun to visit. I just think it would be interesting to visit here because you could learn a lot about a different religion.

Answer 10

WI - lots of scenery. Fields, trees, lakes. Milwaukee is fun for a night out.