Favorite Cities to Travel/Live (Besides OKC)

[PWitty]

If you have a DVR start watching House Hunters International (HGTV) and Rick Steves Europe (PBS). HHI gives you the perspective of people moving over-seas and Rick Steves provides a good visitors perspective for places you might not think of (for instance - stay in Milan and take a day trip to Rome instead of the other way around). Rick will save you a ton of money and let you see more stuff.

Also, Philadelphia is my favorite US city. You can stay busy there for a week and still not see everything. Plus, you can easily day-trip to NYC, Baltimore, and DC.

I know exactly what you're talking about. My girlfriend LOVES House Hunters International and got me to watch a few episodes with her. So many BEAUTIFUL places! The show gives you a pretty good idea of different neighborhoods in cities like London and Paris too which I really liked. The prices in those neighborhoods however...

There is SO many places I want to go that its almost overwhelming, but I guess that gives me plenty to look forward to! I've never been to any of the big cities in the NE or west coast, so I have plenty of domestic traveling to do as well. I've been up around Pittsburgh with one of my buddies for the last 3 months and will be here until next November for training, so we're definitely planning on hitting all the cities in the NE before we move back to OKC.

[Just the facts]

As with anyone from OKCTalk - if you make it to the Jax area PM and I'll give you the 50 cent grand tour.

[Plutonic Panda]

1. Charlotte
2. Houston
3. Dallas
4. Portland OR
5. Tampa, FL

me personally, I would replace Tampa with Miami, but that's me. Although, with looking at Seattle, that might be my first priority as of now, to visit.

[Jeepnokc]

Was it your legal research that allowed you to circumvent the travel embargo?

You can travel to Cuba legally under certain exceptions including journalistic, educational, and research which I qualified under all three for this trip. We had a file an inch thick with our documentation and I had to ask the Cuban passport stamper three times to stamp my passport before she would do it. No one questioned me coming back into the states. I do not think the travel embargo would pass constitutional muster nowadays anyway if challenged. Although the Supreme Court has said that the right to travel internationally isn't a fundamental right....there still must be some type of govt interest that out weighs our right to freely move and freely associate.