Never seen that before but based off what the houses look like it is taken somewhere in NE. Probably just a few blocks behind the capital building as more than 5 or 6 blocks and the cars wouldnt be that nice. If it was NW the road would have more slope.
Not a city....just a place, a route. http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/road-trips/california-pacific-coast-road-trip/ Hired a car in LA in '91 and drove up to Frisco. Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Carmel (Cannery Row!), Santa Cruz (Neil Young territory),San....the William Randolph Hearst mansion. But San Francisco, mythical city of late 60s/early 70s Counter Culture and music. City Lights Bookstore, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, blah blah blah....
I've been to New York and Vegas many times, I've also been to LA and Florida. I like some parts of New York, they're like London but with wider streets. I'm not such a fan of Vegas, it's all a bit plastic, I quite enjoyed my trip to LA, but didn't really like Florida(I'd rather have gone to Miami than Orlando). New Orleans is the place I'd most like to go next.
You will like New Orleans. Make sure you go on one of the boats with the big fans into the swamp. There are tours you can book at whatever hotel you stay at. Also I highly recomend that you go to Oak Alley Plantation and one of the creol plantations. Once again you can book that tour with your hotel and they will drive you there. Oak Alley is one of the most famous plantations still standing and they film a lot of movies there. Parts of interview with the vampire was filmed there. It has a pretty famous walkway to the front of the house which you will probabaly recognize. http://www.oakalleyplantation.com/
Aye, one of my fave films ever, Django Unchained, was filmed there. I've been to the US a few times, but New Orleans is definitely the best bit I went to.
I was drinking in a bar in San Francisco (where I learned about leaving your change on the bar so the barmaid/man takes what you owe as he/she brings your drink). Got talking to an old-timer who spotted I was English. He was an old seaman, who'd sailed all over the world and it turned out he knew the vicious old parrot on the bar in the Earl de Grey.....
Sadly not, though if I were to ever go back I would definitely go. I was only there for a couple of days, so I didn't get to do too much there.
Well hopefully you got to drink and see some ladies take off their shirts for beads. Although I saw a whole bus of old ladies with walkers on burboun street take off their shirts for beads from some strippers on a balcony and I think it scarred me for life. They werent even wearing bras, they had all clearly planned on doing it.
New Orleans, Memphis and Chicago (from an architectural point of view) always seem like the places to visit after New York, LA, Vegas etc.... never been to USA but plan to one day.
New Orleans really is a stunning City,i've been twice and yes i have done the Oak Alley Plantation,i'd recomend the City to anyone,not so keen on san francisco though,it just dosen't do it for me,though i realise i'm in a minority there.LA though is the City for me,absolutely love it there,combined with a side trip to Vegas.Lake Tahoe is also a wonderful place to visit,just have to remember to also visit Virginia City whilst in the area.
Trouble with Las Vegas is that there is no sense of history any of the old buildings that are left they just blow it up and build something far grander in its place. The only exception to that is Fremont Street where a video roof was put over the main street, could be a good idea for Whitefriargate. Memphis was interesting for me as I visited the Gibson guitar factory on a guided tour, Beale Street's bars were magic the music was sublime. And of course Graceland all facinating stuff.
Steinbeck fan too Stan? Did that drive too Stan, one of the best trips I've ever done. Carmel was beautiful. Jack London knocked about there as well.
Good suggestions. I find it a pity that most Europeans form their opinions of the USA based on a few large cities on either coast, or the plastic glitz of Las Vegas. The true heart of the USA is in the midwest. People are friendlier and generally less concerned with the fads and fashions of the day. 5 years ago I took a buddy from Milan to Houston and Austin and towns in between, including some of the best BBQ you'll ever find, but a good 2 hour drive out of Austin. He still talks about that trip. Many think of Kansas City as some kind of backwards cow town, but it is a beautiful city with lots of culture (their chamber of commerce used to claim that KC has more boulevards than Paris and more fountains than Rome. I don't know if that is true but KC has plenty of both). They also have the MLS Cup champs, who open their 2014 season this weekend. Those who are interested in horses (racing and otherwise) will find northern Kentucky an outstanding place to visit. I would almost kill to get back to Claudia Sanders' Dinner House on Stephenville, about halfway between Louisville and Lexington. Claudia Sanders was the Colonel's wife, and her recipes yield some of the best southern cooking one will ever have. Cities like St. Louis and Houston and Minneapolis and Chicago have outstanding symphony orchestras and other fine arts. Out of the way places like Huntsville, Alabama is in beautiful country and has some of the best German food you'll find in the USA, and has outstanding space museums. Rocket engines for the Saturn V and other NASA spacecraft were developed there, as Huntsville was the backwater place where the Brits and Yanks relocated German rocket scientists after smuggling them out of Nazi Germany, which is how the space and rocketry industry got started there. Santa Fe, New Mexico has opera in the summer, outdoors in the desert. The New Mexico desert isn't just sand, but a beautiful array of color and interesting landscapes. Outside of Santa Fe there are several old western saloons still operating, looking little different than they did in 1870 only with electricity and indoor plumbing. One I remember still had the girl on the swing kicking a bell on the ceiling. I don't know how or why that tradition started in the old west but I have to admit it is fun to watch. I could go on and on and on, but there are a lot of good things about the USA that folks who spend their time in NY or California never get to see, and the people are a lot different as well.
I've just spent a few days over in Paris and I noticed that the in-flight magazine had an article on alternative cities to visit rather than always going to the obvious spots. For example, Verona in Italy rather than Rome. Surprise, surprise - the UK suggestion was Hull rather than London.
