My wife and I struggle with this a lot. She likes the beach. I hate the beach and would much rather be in the mountains or exploring cities the way the locals do.
Sitting on a beach sipping cocktails really is horrible for me. I need more activity than that.
Where are you staying in Atlanta?
Stone Mountain and Piedmont Park are probably the coolest local attractions. The Atlanta History Center is quite cool too (they’ve got a period mansion from the 1920s and a reconstructed antebellum plantation on the property).
For random food recs, I’d recommend The Slutty Vegan for a memorable experience. Atlanta weirdly has some of the best Korean BBQ in the whole country, but only in the distant suburbs. The fire marshals in a couple heavily Asian exurbs still allow indoor charcoal grills. 678 and 770 are the two restaurants I know of that have charcoal grills in the table.
As close to the Eastern music venue as we can find an Air BnB probably.
Cabbagetown and Inman Park are the neighborhoods you want to be in. Grant Park and Reynoldstown are second choices. Reynoldstown is closest, but not that notable of a neighborhood; Cabbagetown is both walkable from the venue and one of Atlanta’s coolest neighborhoods.
I always way overestimate how much I’ll enjoy the beach. My gf and I decided to pass 6 months in Puerto Vallarta figuring there’d be enough to do to keep it interesting, but we were kinda bored with the same walk every day after a month or 2.
I will say the one exception is Rio. That’s just an incredibly, incredibly fun city and I could easily hang out at the beach or walk the boardwalk every day and never get bored. And the locals are always playing sports or doing something on the beach so people watching is solid. Not to mention the men and women look like Greek gods there. It’s just sitting at the beach for 3-4 hours with nothing really to do that bores me.
Civil and Human Rights Museum in ATL.
Just bought flights for Christmas in Paris. Arrive Christmas morning (redeye, womp), leave New Year’s Eve.
We were there 7 years ago for a few days during our honeymoon - will be going back to all the museums and a couple of the restaurants that we loved.
Any restaurant or activity suggestions?
On the list: L’Avant Comptoir, Petit Pointoise
I’m with you on that. I’d almost rather be doing anything else.
I always find the free walking tours once I arrive in a city. I mean they’re tip based but still you can walk off and not pay if you want.
Hmmm I’m no foodie but I really enjoyed the food in Rome. Particularly a slightly out of the way restaurant not far from our hotel, but I may have been lucky… though we also ate at an obvious tourist trap restaurant very close to one of the big sites and it was also very good. May have been lucky but also we subsisted on gelato for 7 days so I wasn’t being picky
Defintely a beach guy, I don’t want to have to research and plan a bunch of shit when I’m on vacation. If someone does it for me I don’t mind it but I’m just as happy to sit around, eat good food, drink, golf, read a book or whatever. I’m a simple guy, you will basically never here me say I’m bored. I’m the kind of person that would have no problem retiring right now at 35.
Beautiful! Where is that?
I get bored way too quickly at the beach.
I’m also superuber white. So it’s a chair, umbrella and a shitload of sunscreen for me.
Rick Steves has some new website for guides. I’m guessing it probably isn’t total garbage. Haven’t used it and don’t typically use guides so that’s all I’ve got.
Awesome. I might pick your brain one day. It’s so much faster / cheaper to fly to the Virgin Islands from Indy compared to Hawaii.
Pun intended?
We weren’t exactly ballin’ at the time, but our best meal in Paris was here: https://chez-gabrielle.business.site/. It’s a short walk north of the Arc de Triomphe.
Musee D’Orsay
Montmartre with the view from Sacre Coeur, then some merguez and cous cous. If you’re a real art junkie walk past Bateau Lavoir where Picasso, Modigliani, Apollinaire etc almost starved to death
The rest of Paris, not so much if you’ve been there before and done the usual things.
That’s like a stuff one does on a weekend. Traveling for that is suboptimal. The time spent travelling just cuts into leisure time. Obviously if you don’t live somewhere where you have good restaurants, golf, or whatever it is that you enjoy doing, that’s a different story.
When it’s -10 degrees, sitting on a beach all day sounds like heaven.