Hi, friends!
Happy Monday!
Tonight’s prompt is what sorts of things do you do when you travel? You bet your ass I will always be that person who wants to go into grocery stores and farmers markets when I travel. Oh you got an artisan fair? Hell yeah let’s go.
I have friends who like to go to shopping “fashion” stores that we don’t have in St. Louis. So sometimes I end up tagging along and spending an hour in a Zara or something like that just being glad I’m not 20 anymore and don’t feel the need to try that hard with my appearance! A former boss was obsessed with Hard Rock Cafes (don’t ask why, I never could figure it out) so they’d plan their family trips around things like where to stay before a cruise so that they could get dinner the night before at a Hard Rock.
Well, I don’t travel that much anymore. If it’s a place that we’ve been to before, like SW VT, then there are regular things that we always want to make sure we do. But if it’s a place we’ve never been, then we just kind of figure shit out as we go. My feeling is that I’m someplace new, so why the hell would I want to do something I can do at home?
I always seem to go to food places where the locals gush about it. YOLO.
Went to Ben’s Chilli Bowl in DC. It’s a very nice chilli dog but it’s still a chilli dog.
Also Shake Shack. Disappointed as it was a Pretty damn expensive Wendy’s burger. Fries were pretty good.
Out to SoCAL. In N Out makes a pretty good burger but the fries are meh.
Had the infamous (at least to my parents) Bulgogi Burrito in San Diego. Two tastes that shouldn’t go together but work. I recommend.
My good friend in San Diego introduced me to real Mexican Tacos. Nothing here in Toronto comes close… Not even Taco Bell ( he would kill me over that joke.)
I found this Homer quote appropriate:
I wanna shake off the dust of this one horse town. I wanna explore the world. I want to watch tv in a different time zone. I wanna visit strange exotic malls. I’m sick of eating hoagies. I wanna grinder!
I genuinely expected a Homer quote to be the ancient Greek writer at first. LOL
Speaking of shacks and San Diego, a girl I did that up with there first introduced me to the fish taco about 25 years ago. Of course, due to my lack of experience and my (vaguely) post-adolescent mindset, it wasn’t until I actually managed to try one for myself that I stopped thinking about that term as a kind of euphemism. . . .
If I have one day in a city, I’ll try and max out walking in the hostoric core, which seems to usually be by the water. If I have two days, I’ll try to get to at least one art museum.
I’m hit or miss with art museums. I get annoyed if galleries lack context or are poorly organized.
Most cities seem to have a good museum or even one good gallery in a museum. But getting there can be a pain if public transportation isn’t good. In which case forget it, it’s time to find good pizza.
New places, I want to go to good scenic places, early before the crowds. Then it is all about food & drink. If it is my normal trips. It is all family, friends & favorite foods.
Where I go:
i go for local food places mostly…tho if im somewhere what has hills or mountains around its only a matter of time till i try to walk to the top of the highest one i can….just to see whats up there
i think its a side effect of being a flat lander…the novelty of terrain going upwards gets me everytime
Cafes, record stores, and book stores. My one souvenir from the trip was a vinyl album in Vienna.