You mean the sky is blue...not gray?

[chestnutcurls]

It's amazing how different the world looks when you're seeing clear skies for the first time in two weeks. It feels strange to not only see the top of the Clark Tower (the "skyscraper" of Memphis, which is very close to my work), but to also see so much blueness over it. I took my lunch to the park, and sat there soaking up God's creation. I could have stayed there all day.

Tonight I am getting a haircut! Kathy called to make an appointment for both of us, but they only had one opening, so she let me have it. Isn't that nice? :) But I'm just getting a trim; I'm going to grow my hair out a little. This is not because I like my hair long. It is because no matter how it's cut, it looks exactly the same. Cutting it shorter again will not make a splash with anyone, so all I can do is let it grow. Lately I feel very blah, appearance-wise. My hair is boring, my clothes are boring, my accessories are boring. I like to look "classic" and "simple." Unfortunately, I noticed the other night that apparently this style is no match for the fun hair/fake fur/juniors' department look of some of my contemporaries. And if I were to emulate this look, I am pretty sure people would think it looked stupid on me. Including me. :P I tried to get input on this issue from aardwolf and yakko7178 yesterday, but they just panicked in a very masculine way and accused me of trying to "trap" them. :)

Wow, I didn't mean to talk about any of that. Here is something I've been thinking about:

Top 10 U.S. Cities I Want to Visit
(That I Have Never Been To Before)
1. San Francisco
2. Boston
3. Seattle
4. Baltimore
5. New York City
6. Philadelphia
7. Chicago
8. Williamsburg, VA
9. Norman, OK
10. Phoenix

What would yours be?

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[sarah.livejournal.com]

1) New york
2) San Francisco
3) Canada (ok, it's not a city)
4) London
5) Paris
6) Amsterdam
and that's all I can think of now.

[sominfun.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about feeling blah and not getting any input. It's impossible from guys. You must turn to your girlfriends, but in this you should be careful too. I had a friend convince me to dye my hair red, which was fun for awhile, but it was very expensive to go back to my natural brown.

If you ever want to visit NYC let me know - we could totally meet up. NYC is only a two or two and a half hour drive from here. And I haven't done half the tourist stuff there yet. :) I'm always looking for excuses to go down. :)

[sominfun.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah:

US Cities I've never visited but would like to:
1. Los Angelas
2. Seattle
3. Juneau
4. Chicago
5. San Francisco
6. Honalulu
7. Portland
8. Denver
9. Memphis (Graceland!!)
10. Louisville

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

I would love to come up there! I'm frustrated because it will be years before I have enough vacation time to go anywhere. But someday. I will definitely let you know. :)

You should so come here! Graceland isn't that great, but I could show you the really fun things like the "new" bridge, and the Pyramid, and Huey's, and Memphis Pizza Cafe... :)

just U.S.? ok...

[laura8225.livejournal.com]

1. New York City
2. Boston
3. Los Angeles
4. Honalulu
5. Phoenix
6. Chicago
7. New Orleans
8. Juneau
9. Santa Fe
10. Houston

[ex-lifeofbri692.livejournal.com]

have you been to seattle already?

1. New York City
2. Boston
3. Las Vegas
4. I guess some place in florida
5. San Diego
6. Denver
7. Philadelphia
8. Austin
9. Atlanta
10. Salt Lake City

San Francisco (and the bay area in general) is pretty cool. I definitely recommend going there.. make sure to rent or have access to a car so you can day trip to Santa Cruz. I did a road trip down to all those places over spring break this past year.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

I forgot Seattle! And that was really high on my list, too! I'm going to fix that now... :)

US Places

[contradictions.livejournal.com]

Here's my list of places. Some are not actual cities, but rather, sights that I would like to see (in no particular order) :

1. New York City
2. Chicago
3. Seattle
4. San Fransisco (or LA...either one ;o) )
5. Key West
6. Grand Canyon
7. Mt. Rushmore
8. Hawaii
9. Alaska
10. San Antonio

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

This is a toughie...

In no particular order (except the order that I think of them):

1. San Antonio, TX
2. Orlando, FL
3. Houston, TX
4. Santa Fe, NM
5. Memphis, TN
6. Detroit, MI
7. Milwaukee, WI
8. Honolulu (or any city, really), HI
9. Kansas City, KS
10. Branson, MO

Now, I'll add a little list of 10 cities (or the general vicinity) I highly recommend people visit (I am biased on most of these)...

1. San Diego, CA
2. San Francisco, CA
3. Monterey, CA
4. Seattle, WA
5. Dallas, TX
6. Niagara Falls, NY
7. New Orleans, LA
8. Washington, DC
9. Miami, FL
10. Hilton Head, SC

[pipermcgrupp.livejournal.com]

Glad to see that Philthydelphia is on your list!

My list would be:

Detroit
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Bismarck, ND
Sturgis, SD
Billings, Montana
Boise
Juneau
Honolulu
Seattle
Eugene, OR

Once I do this I'll have been in all 50 states and I'll be very proud of myself.

You should post the results of everyone's lists and see which cities are the most desirable to visit!

[lifeofpatrick.livejournal.com]

New Orleans, LA

[eleutheria.livejournal.com]

1. New York City (i had a chance and i didn't take it!)
2. San Francisco
3. Boston
4. Chicago
5. Seattle
6. Santa Fe
7. Colorado Springs (a conservative large city!)
8. Corpus Christi (last large Texas city i haven't seen)
9. Galveston (i'm going soon, anyway)
10. Las Vegas (going soon also)

Been to all the best towns minus the first five on there....

[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

* wanders in via lifeofbrian *

I guess my list would go like:

Boston
Seattle
San Francisco
San Diego
New Orleans
Cupertino, CA (mac geek!)
Gettysburg
Bear Run, PA (for architectural reasons (http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/FLW_fallingwater.html))
Glasgow, MT
The non-Manhattan part of NYC

5 places I've been and liked:

Washington DC
Portland
Philadelphia
Manhattan
Denver

4 places I've been and not liked:

Phoenix, AZ
Richmond, VA
Boulder, CO
Camden, NJ

[(Anonymous)]

1. Washington DC
2. Denver
3. New York
4. Seattle
5. Omaha
6. Fairbanks
7. Honolulu
8. Casper
9. Boston
10. Albuquerque

Some U.S. cities I wanna visit that I've never been to yet (in no particular order)

[nova-wylde.livejournal.com]

1. Dallas, TX
2. Milwaukee, WI
3. Portland, OR
4. Atlanta, GA
5. Memphis, TN
6. Seattle, WA
7. Augusta, WV
8. Orlando, FL
9. Phoenix, AZ
10. Tucson, AZ

I can think of more, but I decided to just keep it at 10...at least for now, hehe.

[ashes-311.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself honoured: I've hardly communicated w/anyone online in months (because I haven't had a connection), but I picked you! :D ;)

I believe we've had this discussion before, and it seems like it was in your LJ, but perhaps not. Anyway, if you come to Seattle, I'd love to get together with you. Knowing you even just as much as I do through your journal, I have a feeling you'd LOVE it. I, however, am not allowed to because I'm from the rival city half an hour/an hour to the south. Tacoma is just superior, that's all. But Seattle is nice and touristy and fun if one isn't bound by loyalties elsewhere to despise it. ;)

The Puget Sound is, I believe, theeee greatest region on the planet to reside in, even though the cost of living is ridiculously skyscraperish. You have to go up to Mt. Rainier or out to the rainforest on the peninsula. Places like that are way more interesting than driving by landmark buildings, etc. Whoopdeedoo. :P 0:)

My tendencies aren't toward super touristy places, so although I'd enjoy visiting certain places (Boston, New York, DC, you know, the places every good American has to see just to have seen them) I'd never go unless I knew someone there to hang out with in a "real life" sort of way. Sorta how you are about Memphis, I guess. You mentioned Graceland's lack of appeal, for example. Even though I spent long summer days adoring Elvis in my youth, I think I can understand the "Ehhhh..." quality of the site. We have friends in DC, for example, who I've been dying to visit for years. But again, the best places are always the burger joints, city parks where you've spent probably months of your life with friends and family.

And now that I've blabbed on an on....

I do LIIIIIIIVE for our summerly sojourn to Kalispell, MT, and I would lovvve to visit some friends of mine in Edmonton, Alberta. Oh, and several good friends are in the Houston area. But other than that, you shall find me, quite hap'ly,

Your friend between the grey skies and green, green grass of home,

Ashley B-)