portland oregon (they built a trolly with what they would have spent to widen a freeway!) reno nevada (very odd place, entertainment district where any other town would have shopping, with commercial districts far out on the perifery. kind of messed up in a way that, but, hellofa great university, engineering, school of mining and minerology, even art, matriculated there) san francisco, AND the entire bay area (only place in u.s. with, well what was for a long time, a nearly european and only decent, level of public transportation. used to visit there three or four times a year when i was growing up) grass valley/nevada city/north san juan (not really a city but a cluster of medium sized slightly larger then small town with more musicians and hippies per capita then even san francisco, also up in my surieal nevana (sierra nevada) mountains in california) colfax california (acutaly a quite small town, the one i lived in the longest of any one place when i was growing up. there used to be, from the 1870s to the 1940s a narrow gauge railroad that connected from there, where it made connections with the sufferin pathetic (southern pacific, origeonaly central pacific, first transcontinental railroad) to the above mentioned grass valley/nevada city area. other places of note i've been through: auburn cali, where i graduated hs in 66, truckee cali, where i started kindergarten, buffalo ny, where i was born, chyanne wy, where they turned the downtown street into one big inclosed shopping mall, denver co, where the civic center and art musium look like the sciffi setting where they film'd one of the planet of the apes movies, sante fe nm, the adobe looking town, san meteo and san jose, sf bay are places where i've been to furcons, felton, near sta cruiz and aptos. bro in law lives in aptos, bonny knoll, near felton, bosh baha'i retreat there. ft brag/mendacino ca, coast end of cal western (skunk line) rr, mendacino botanical gardens, noyo harbor, bed spring acres, wilderville, grant's ass or, hippie place i stayed a couple of years when i first got to oregon, late 70s, eugene, u of o, lots of goodies, didn't find work there other then helping rebuild a house which was cool, got my first computer that worked when i lived there. oh yah. also visited my relatives who lived in nyc ny and lonngg gyisland, back in late 50s, was seriously NOT impressed. subways/elevateds and the l.i. rr were ok, only thing about worth a dam that i got to see of it anyway. the automatic deli was unique but not exactly what the name would seem to imply. my mother's identical twin sister's husband drove a city bus there and was dying of an ulcer. her sister died a year later of stomic cancer. not a wonderful place for anyone who gives a dam about anything as far as i could see. =^^= .../\...
there's still so much to see..... These are in no particular order... Leningrad (St Petersburg), Russia London, UK St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Maui, Hawaii Mesa de Abajo, Mexico Ask me at the end of the summer- I'm going on a cross-country road trip of the US so there's many interesting cities to see... and then ask me in a year- I'll be studying in Wales and New Zealand for a whole year, so I'll have a whole list of wonderful cities to recomend..
I have never been outside of the US... Washington, DC Denver, CO Asheville, NC Richmond, VA Raleigh, NC
1. Amsterdam, Netherlands 2. Dunedin, New Zealand 3. San Francisco, U.S.A. 4. Shenyang, China - This is one big industrial city, but I lived there and it is amazing 5. Byron Bay, Australia
I havent been in a lot of places yet,Ive only been to places in Mexico,Brazil and France,so here it goes: 1-Bahia-Brazil 2-Paris-France 3-Sao Paulo-Brazil 4-Valle de Bravo-Mexico 5-cant think of a 5th one