Yep, spent 2.5 days in Helsinki and that was more than enough for a visit.
There are lots of places around Flathead Lake that would fit well.
Not a recommendation, but I think I fished with some guides out of this lodge years ago:
Oh man I missed this post! How was it? Shreveport is a dump, why were you there? I did my residency there and couldn’t wait to gtfo.
Also looks like I’ll be in Disney World next month, taking my kid to Magic Kingdom and visiting some of my wife’s family there. Any of the Disney experts been there since they got rid of FastPass? You guys were a huge help on my last trip there when we hit up Epcot in 2019. My daughter is close to five years old now, probably most excited about meeting Mickey, Minnie, and the princesses, as opposed to going on rides. Any advice that will make our lives easier and our trip more enjoyable is appreciated! We’re also debating between a second day at either Animal Kingdom or Universal Studios, if anyone has an opinion. Leaning Universal because I figure now is a great time for her to see the Dr. Seuss and Minions stuff but open to suggestions.
Wife and I are looking into an Italy trip for November. Just the two of us, we ain’t got no deadweight kids. We like food and wine culture. Any thoughts? We’re just going for a week, so probably want to fly into an accessible city and then maybe do a brief excursion out to a smaller city. We’d love to make it to Sicily if that’s doable.
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@j8i3h289dn3x7 did a TED talk on this in LC not too long ago. If you start at about this post and work down, there’s a ton of good info. 2022 LC Thread—New Year, New Thread - #6807 by j8i3h289dn3x7
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I went there to do live reporting for the volleyball Nations League (god knows why they chose Shreveport). I ended up ahead a few hundred dollars so worked out for me.
Definitely the most run down part of America I’ve seen, although where I stayed in Memphis the next week was probably dodgier.
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Anybody been to Serbia before?
Late June/July after the spring run off and the rivers come back into shape.
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Memphis was a major let down when I went through there on my way to AZ back in 2007 but I’m sure there are some interesting things to do and see there. Shreveport is just like a culturally barren wasteland of a city, like they took all the bad parts of Louisiana and east Texas and made an amalgamation, although a friend I made late in my stay there was able to show me a few minor highlights I had missed (nothing worth visiting or sticking around for but certainly enough to make it more bearable). It’s been years since I lived there but even if it hadn’t been I would have had sparingly few things to recommend seeing, doing, or eating there.
I know the wind river range in WY is good for this type of thing, but I don’t have any specific lodge recommendations
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My only association to Shreveport is the following exchange from the sitcom Reba:
“Barbra Jean, are you really going to bring a group of Baptists to my home to pry about this?”
“They’re Shreveport Baptists!”
Was just listening to a Kevin Nash (the wrestler) podcast and he was recounting life on the road and for some reason specifically mentioned Shreveport as a city that was worth sticking around in a bit longer. Mainly for the row of bars or whatever it has. Nashville was the other city mentioned.
Sicily is great. Maybe not in November though. I gotta imagine that without beach weather, everything kinda stops.
You would definitely have to put in a little more work to find the gems (food and wine) vs somewhere farther north.
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No clue what this would even be referring to although it’s quite likely Kevin Nash and I run in different circles. A quick Google search indicates that maybe he was talking about the breweries there, which were…fine, when I lived there. Certainly nothing I’d recommend that someone visit although if you’re stuck there anyway you could do worse. The one desirable attraction in the area would probably be the casinos in Bossier City, which is a neighboring city about the same size as Shreveport (no clue where one starts and the other ends really). There’s also apparently an aquarium there which opened several years after I moved away, which is unfortunate because I probably would’ve gone there a lot.
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Here’s the comment. He does mention the riverboat casinos too.
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Yeah, these places are generally made for the wealthy city folks to get some taste of nature. They’re all going to be expensive.
Thanks. In terms of what we’d do on a trip, I am just thinking that for our long trip to Europe we aren’t looking to like camp or ski, for example. Something like a wine tour outing is more our style for travel. If we want to camp we just go camping on the weekend, there’s plenty of places within 3 hours of where we live.
Anyone know anything about Allentown, PA? That a decent place to live?
All I know about living there in Allentown is they’re closing all the factories down.
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