Top 5 Cities you would go to for VACATION?

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 04-15-2010, 08:14 PM

You should visit Colorado for sure of you love hiking and the outdoors! There is plenty to do in Denver, and the mountain towns are fun, too. There are lots of trails and beautiful parks! Plus, the Appalachians are pretty, but are sort of more like hills than mountains.

I'd be happy to give you more information if you'd like.

**cassiesmom** · 04-15-2010, 08:47 PM

In no particular order ...

New York
San Diego
Cleveland, Ohio (for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cedar Point)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee County Zoo, loads of festivals, Wisconsin State Fair)
Toronto - revisit

If you come to Chicago, go up to the 95th floor restaurant at the John Hancock Center and have lunch or have a drink at the 96th floor bar - the views are so cool! Go to Navy Pier; go to the Art Institute because the new modern wing just opened and it's gotten rave reviews. The Art Institute is free on Thursdays after 5 PM. Go to Oak Street Beach and do a little people-watching. If it rains, go to the Museum of Science and Industry (check their Web site for free day schedule). You can get bicycles at Navy Pier and ride up and down the lake front paths.

Edited to ask: Can I have more than five?
Washington, D.C.- new memorials and museum about the Holocaust have opened since I was last there, and my cousins live in Virginia and I have friends from college in Maryland.
Northern California, San Francisco, and where they grow grapes for wine making.
Savannah, Georgia.
I want to drive up to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, take a ferry across Lake Michigan (because you can - takes about 4 hours to cross). The other end is Ludington, Michigan, and I could drive back down through lovely southwest Michigan.
New Orleans
Colorado and/or Utah - mountains, clouds, sky, fresh air
Nashville and Memphis, TN

**Marigold2** · 04-15-2010, 09:59 PM

If you come to Cleveland I am taking you to dinner.

Originally Posted by cassiesmom

In no particular order ...

New York
San Diego
Cleveland, Ohio (for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cedar Point)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee County Zoo, loads of festivals, Wisconsin State Fair)
Toronto - revisit

If you come to Chicago, go up to the 95th floor restaurant at the John Hancock Center and have lunch or have a drink at the 96th floor bar - the views are so cool! Go to Navy Pier; go to the Art Institute because the new modern wing just opened and it's gotten rave reviews. The Art Institute is free on Thursdays after 5 PM. Go to Oak Street Beach and do a little people-watching. If it rains, go down to the Museum of Science and Industry (check their Web site for free day schedule). You can get bicycles at Navy Pier and ride up and down the lake front paths.

**kokopup** · 04-15-2010, 11:12 PM

North America

New England revisit
Nova Scotia revisit by way of Bar Harbor ferry
Prince Edward Island/New Brunswick
Carmel Valley California -revisit sister Pebble Beach, Big Sur
SW Canada Vancouver to-Canadian Rockies-Calgary

Not a fan of cities but surrounding areas

**kokopup** · 04-15-2010, 11:39 PM

Pembroke_Corgi

You should visit Colorado for sure of you love hiking and the outdoors! There is plenty to do in Denver, and the mountain towns are fun, too. There are lots of trails and beautiful parks! Plus, the Appalachians are pretty, but are sort of more like hills than mountains. I'd be happy to give you more information if you'd like.

I have lead Mtn Bike Expeditions from Steamboat Springs to Salida 5 times following the Great Divide Bike Trail---- I have also spent many days riding trails in Tennessee and North Carolina. I can assure you that what they have in the Appalachian Mountains are indeed Mountains. Sure 14000 compared to 6,600 is a big difference. You have to realize that low country anywhere farther west than kansas is at 5000 ft before you come to the mountains. low country in Tennessee is 100 feet and NC is 0 feet. I have climbed to Clinkmans Dome 6600 ft on my Bike and there is not a climb to compare in Colorado. Pikes Peak climb is gradual by comparison.

**todd** · 04-17-2010, 07:28 PM

1 Bronson mo
2 Florida.
3 california
4 arizona

**CountryWolf07** · 04-18-2010, 03:26 PM

We've talked a bit more about it, and we have decided between 3 cities - Washington D.C, Boston, or Chicago. If we do go to Washington, we would have time to go see Philly & Baltimore as well.. which would be a plus.

**cassiesmom** · 06-02-2010, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by cassiesmom

In no particular order ...

New York
San Diego
Cleveland, Ohio (for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cedar Point)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee County Zoo, loads of festivals, Wisconsin State Fair)
Toronto - revisit

If you come to Chicago, go up to the 95th floor restaurant at the John Hancock Center and have lunch or have a drink at the 96th floor bar - the views are so cool! Go to Navy Pier; go to the Art Institute because the new modern wing just opened and it's gotten rave reviews. The Art Institute is free on Thursdays after 5 PM. Go to Oak Street Beach and do a little people-watching. If it rains, go to the Museum of Science and Industry (check their Web site for free day schedule). You can get bicycles at Navy Pier and ride up and down the lake front paths.

Edited to ask: Can I have more than five?
Washington, D.C.- new memorials and museum about the Holocaust have opened since I was last there, and my cousins live in Virginia and I have friends from college in Maryland.
Northern California, San Francisco, and where they grow grapes for wine making.
Savannah, Georgia.
I want to drive up to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, take a ferry across Lake Michigan (because you can - takes about 4 hours to cross). The other end is Ludington, Michigan, and I could drive back down through lovely southwest Michigan.
New Orleans
Colorado and/or Utah - mountains, clouds, sky, fresh air
Nashville and Memphis, TN

Can I add a few more?
Philadelphia
Boston
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, in the upper peninsula of Michigan
The Grand Canyon

**Suki Wingy** · 06-03-2010, 05:53 PM

Well for me personally it would be

1. La Crosse, WI
2. Cardiff, Wales, UK
3. Des Moines, IA
4. Washington D.C.
5. Minneapolis, MN

Bet between your choices, I really do like DC, I've only been there twice for day trips though. Chicago is great with all the museums and parks and things, but I live so close to there I often forget about how fun it can be.