Favorite Cities

[Rachel20]

Thank you to all those who posted!

I love all the pictures and reading about the many places that members have visited.

I want to fall in love with a city - not just be a visitor and pass by.

I really resonate with these lines that I am quoting from this thread.

That's exactly how I feel .

that I've been missing my heart all along and it was buried somewhere in ...

The feeling you get when you're visiting a city where everyone can tell you're a foreigner, not by race or appereance, cause they're your race and color, that feeling is somewhat addictive. You want to leave and go back home, but when you're home you're planning on your next trip there.

There was nothing like contemplating life, the world, and God while standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower, gazing over the City of Lights in the middle of the night.

 

[Jilly81]

Lansing, Michigan.

*just removing most of the typing to keep this post from being long*

Congratulations, Christian. You made Michigan switch places in my head, so it now seems like a great place to live

 

[Hellooo]

My favorite cities that I've visited...Barcelona, Seville, Lagos, Lisbon, Quito, Napo, Essaouira, New York City, Savannah, St. Augustine, Key Largo, Key West, Nice, and Rome (although France and Italy have both changed very very much since I've been last)

The things that make me love a city...usually a combination of the food, people I'm with or that I meet, and I don't know what else.. magic? ive taken a cooking class in barcelona, listened to flamenco in seville, camped overnight in the sahara, tubed in the amazon, took university classes in Paris, observed Ernest Hemingway lookalikes and the green sunset flash in Key West, felt my very first earthquake in Quito, giggled away many days and nights visiting my younger sister in NYC


Cities I would love to visit...New Orleans, Nashville, Charleston, Washington DC, Portland, Las Vegas, Jerusalem, Athens, Santorini, Chefchaouen, Cape Town, Tokyo, Melbourne, Medellin, Warsaw, and too many other places

I feel like being an avid reader and having people share their travel experiences with me contributes to my wanderlust.

As far as living, Florida is always my home...i would rather live here and just visit and read about the places I'm curious about.

 

[Prov910]

For "other" I'd add Florence to the list (Firenze!) It's so beautiful and there's a ton of history in Florence considering it's a relatively small city.

 

[christian74]

(i snipped this for brevity, forgive me?)

but yay, Lansing! MSU! i'm from Battle Creek, and my aunt lives in Holland on the lake, south of Grand Rapids.

the downside of a Michigan winter is it's always cloudy, for some reason. if you can bear that, it's all good!

...there are a couple of other members here from Michigan. they're awesome. no connection, probably.

I believe I've been to Battle Creek once - there a district court and also Kellog's - ha, a distant memory!

 

[notmyown]

I believe I've been to Battle Creek once - there a district court and also Kellog's - ha, a distant memory!

Cereal City, you know?

my folks lived in the Post Division when i was born. i remember it well. lol

 

[OneFaith]

I haven’t been many places. There’s a lot I like about living in Michigan, but if my children didn’t anchor me here I’d be living by my family in Hawaii. In Michigan you’re never more than five miles from water. Most of the crime tends to stay in Detroit. I don’t like Michigan round abouts and turn arounds- having to turn right in order to turn left. I do like experiencing all the seasons, we have such beautiful fall leaves, but winters can be harsh. Still, I like the snow, and wouldn’t want a hotter summer, unless it was Hawaii lol. I like that Michigan is basically the same distance from the equator as where Jesus walked- so I can identify with the seasons He must of had. Ive always wanted to visit Paris and Ireland.

 

[tourist]

I haven’t been many places. There’s a lot I like about living in Michigan, but if my children didn’t anchor me here I’d be living by my family in Hawaii. In Michigan you’re never more than five miles from water. Most of the crime tends to stay in Detroit. I don’t like Michigan round abouts and turn arounds- having to turn right in order to turn left. I do like experiencing all the seasons, we have such beautiful fall leaves, but winters can be harsh. Still, I like the snow, and wouldn’t want a hotter summer, unless it was Hawaii lol. I like that Michigan is basically the same distance from the equator as where Jesus walked- so I can identify with the seasons He must of had. Ive always wanted to visit Paris and Ireland.

I grew up outside of Detroit and later in Lansing for a total of 28 years. I love the change of seasons too but winters can be harsh. Been in Florida for 24 years, hot in summer but very pleasant fall and winter.

 

[laughingheart]

I love Vancouver BC. I also have lived in and love Istanbul. So many reasons for both.

 

[17Bees]

Lansing, Michigan.


- MI Supreme Court surrounded by residential area
- Meijer
- Farming community, highways with beautiful sceneries
- No traffic
- Small towns
- Four seasons

I recently had to flew to Michigan for an unexpected reason and realized, when I landed in Grand Rapid, that I've been missing my heart all along and it was buried somewhere in Michigan.


Really nice walk, connected with Michigan State Capitol

I really love this place!

This is kind of a house I want to settle in, start a family with her

Just get off at Charlotte and it leads to a beautiful scenic road

Lansing Downtown

Michigan Supreme Court literally next to a residential neighborhood

slightly humid summer with firebugs, plenty of snow

Lansing Michigan! Home of the Olds, right on the river Grand. Stole the state capital right out from under ole Detroit. Olds was about the first car ever to come out with automatic transmission. The readout sat right behind the horn on the steering wheel with a column mounted shift rod that had a white ball on the end looking like mother of pearl. I think it was called the Hydramatic and Olds claimed it was "motoring's magic carpet". Those old's had a way with words.

It was a 41 that sat in a friend of my dad's garage. It had belonged in his family for 2 generations prior and had sat idol for at least one of those. I sat in the driver's seat when I was little and the wheel was white and looked like it was made of marble, all cracked along the edges. Seemed big as a tractor tire.

Have no idea what became of that car except that my dad's friend left it to me. It's been in my mind ever since. Thanks Lansing!

 

[christian74]

Lansing Michigan! Home of the Olds, right on the river Grand. Stole the state capital right out from under ole Detroit. Olds was about the first car ever to come out with automatic transmission. The readout sat right behind the horn on the steering wheel with a column mounted shift rod that had a white ball on the end looking like mother of pearl. I think it was called the Hydramatic and Olds claimed it was "motoring's magic carpet". Those old's had a way with words.

It was a 41 that sat in a friend of my dad's garage. It had belonged in his family for 2 generations prior and had sat idol for at least one of those. I sat in the driver's seat when I was little and the wheel was white and looked like it was made of marble, all cracked along the edges. Seemed big as a tractor tire.

Have no idea what became of that car except that my dad's friend left it to me. It's been in my mind ever since. Thanks Lansing!

MAN!, there's something about your writing - transcending the boundaries of... I don't know - revitalizing a man who came home from a long day's of work, ready to call it a night. God bless you Kenthomas!

 

[JosephsDreams]

Manhattan, beyond a doubt. I do like many other cities though. Probably being a native New Yorker tilts my perspective a little. Still, no where else like NYC.

 

[Hellooo]

My sister has become too accustomed to living in nyc...