web analytics

Posts Tagged ‘portland’

Some Places I Want To Visit and Some Places That I Don’t

Posted By kage / 9th June 2010

I kind of dig traveling.  Who doesn’t right? Well, maybe some of you homebody’s who would miss the Dukes of Hazard reruns for your nightly dose of culture.  For those of us who have moved past the General Lee, the world is at the very least an interesting place.  With that in mind here’s a quick list of places I want to go and some that you and your mother probably couldn’t drag me to.

Places  That I Want To Visit

1.  Paris – I’ve been there.  I want to go back.  Long a dream of mine, my parents surprised my wife and I with a trip about 10 years ago.  Three or four days in London and the same for Paris.  London was great and it was a city I had always wanted to visit.  Paris on the other hand was beyond great.  Paris was without a doubt the trip that was the highlight of my life to that point.  Marriages and births not withstanding.  Paris was foreign, Paris was not foreign, it was culture, life, modern, new, old, fantastic.  It was Paris.  I want to live there.

2.  Amsterdam – Not for the pot.  Seriously.  Amsterdam seems to me to be a place, like Paris only more so.  With Paris I could understand and read the language, just not speak it very well.  Amsterdam?  Who in the hell can understand Dutch?  Maybe some other Dutch I guess, so  yeah there’s that but not me.  And I love that.  Also very cool art and history and beer.  So there’s that.

3.  Germany – Pretty much anywhere in Germany.  The countryside?  Sure.  The cities?  Of course.  My favorite artists and cars generally come from Germany.  Not to mention some fine beers.

4 – 6.  San Francisco, Portland, Seattle – I’d like to do a west coast tour.  Especially Portland and Seattle.  Seems to me that the cities are cool.  Not just in a weather kind of way, but in a hep way.  Kansas City has fucking barbecue.  The rest of the world has culture.  Seattle and Portland seem to represent everything that Kansas City isn’t.

7-9. Montreal and Toronto – Europe without going to Europe.  Of course this is all based on nothing that I can speak of in a concrete manner, but still…

Some places that I don’t want to visit

Mexico – I’d prefer not to get caught up in a drug war and chopped up, put in a barrel and dumped in a ditch.  I can probably do that in some parts of Kansas City.

Pretty much anywhere in South America except for Chile and Bolivia.  Of course I don’t know but seems like they have some fairly cosmoplitan cities.  The rest of the countries have drug wars.  I’ll pass.

The southern United States (and I’m from Texas) – Recently the south seems to have lost it’s collective mind.  Apparently to live in the south means that you have to become a hyper religous, intolerant, badly educated, George Bush loving ass.  Missouri is only marginally better.  Marginally.

Utah – The south only with more white people.