Traveling for work over the past 10 years has taken me to a
lot of places in the United States. I think I can say that I've been to over 40
states and over hundreds of cities right now. I've been blessed to be able to
indulge in many of the different cultures around the country and would love to
share some of my favorite places with you. It is very hard to narrow this down,
but for the purpose of this post, I'm going to keep it just to large
metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Miami, Boston, and Seattle. I'll try to give
you a small flavor of each of the cities that are all in the outskirts of the
nation. I was born and raised in Philadelphia and still get back there pretty
often. So it would be a lot easier to write about places like Philadelphia, New
York, DC, etc. but I'll leave those for another day.
San Francisco:
This is where I reside now. I love it here! If it wasn't so expensive to live
here I would probably stay here for the rest of my life. There are so many
different items to see: Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz, The Farmers Markets, the
Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, Chinatown, and so much more. The
restaurants are easily by far some of the best in the country. There's just so
much good local, organic, and amazing food here in the city. And only about 40
min. up the road, you can hit up Napa Valley and the rest of wine country for
an experience that you will never forget. What a great city!
Miami: Will Smith
once said "Party in the city where the heat is on". I couldn't agree
more. Miami is the place that I go when I want to relax, sit back, and party as
much as I can. It's probably the second largest melting pot in the nation, with
so much culture that you can never only spend just a couple of days there. The
nightlife in South Beach attracts a lot of people you would be surprised to see
how much actually goes on within places like the Art Deco district and Coconut
Grove to name a few.
Boston: Another
great town that I've gotten to see is Boston. Boston definitely has some very
interesting people and is a big-time sports town. If you ever come here you
must visit any of the local pubs and restaurants as well as catch a ballgame at
Fenway Park. For some reason the city seems to have an insane amount of traffic
though so either look up the best routes on public transportation, or lace up
your walking shoes. The Boston/New England area also is home to many of the
best universities in the entire nation.
Seattle: I never
thought that I would say this (especially being from Philadelphia), but Seattle
is a really, really cool town. There's just so much to see here and the city
seems to have so much life to it. Everyone has this misconception that all it
does in Seattle is rain, but that isn't really true. They have a great fish market
to go see, some really fantastic restaurants downtown, and is famously home to
the software juggernaut Microsoft. They have some great skiing here, and just
two hours to the north is Vancouver Canada, another beautiful city. Seattle was
very popular in the 90s grunge music era and spawned many popular bands such as
Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden.
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