I'm Amtraking Across The Country. Recommend Me Some Stops?

[Eric!]

Yep. I'm hauling my ass across the country, for FUN.

Well, I'm gonna go hang out with my pals behndy and maybe warwick.hoy, but getting home, I'm finding my own way. One of those "find yourself" quests or whatever, except not really that cool.


So here's when my ILF family and friends come to help! What cities are neat? Anything a passer-by born and raised in West Michigan should absolutely stop and see?

If any homies have a couch upon which I may surf, I take up very little space and resources, and value personal hygiene



Perhaps later, I'll turn this thread into "Eric!'s 'Crossing The Country Clusterfuck."

[D.o.S.]

Chicago is rad, on the way-ish, and very cool. Riding in their by train is great--you watch miles of endless countryside turn to suburb turn to cityscape sprawl--Plus you can Amtrak Chicago>Denver, which is another cool city on the way to the left side of a properly held map.

But you're missing out if you're not heading to the Beast coast, mang.

[dubkitty]

so you're going from Michigan to Washington State and the Bay Area. Chicago is obvious. if you're planning on renting cars from train stops and depending on whether you take the northern or central route, Yellowstone and/or Glacier National Parks are staggeringly beautiful. Seattle is relatively near w_h's Spokane location, is quirky and interesting, and is surrounded by national parks of great beauty. i've never been to Minneapolis, but if you're taking the northern route you may pass through there and it'd likely be worth a visit. the Humboldt Redwoods State Park in coastal Northern California will fuck your head right up...do not miss it. see different parts of the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland/Berkeley, Marin, and Santa Cruz are quite different in culture and feel. and though it's out of the way, go to Los Angeles if you can...IMO you can't understand America without understanding LA because so much of our culture emits from there.

[DarkAxel]

provide us with photos, please

[Fuzzy Fred]

def-o come to chicago and say hi!

i love the midwest, because i'm weird as fuck like that, but check out colorado for sure

[Jwar]

Not Kansas where I live, that's for sure. Boring shit ass fucking place. Sigh.

[theavondon]

T...Texas?

[Eric!]

This could very easily turn into a brodown-across-the-US

[snipelfritz]

so you're going from Michigan to Washington State and the Bay Area. Chicago is obvious. if you're planning on renting cars from train stops and depending on whether you take the northern or central route, Yellowstone and/or Glacier National Parks are staggeringly beautiful. Seattle is relatively near w_h's Spokane location, is quirky and interesting, and is surrounded by national parks of great beauty. i've never been to Minneapolis, but if you're taking the northern route you may pass through there and it'd likely be worth a visit. the Humboldt Redwoods State Park in coastal Northern California will fuck your head right up...do not miss it. see different parts of the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland/Berkeley, Marin, and Santa Cruz are quite different in culture and feel. and though it's out of the way, go to Los Angeles if you can...IMO you can't understand America without understanding LA because so much of our culture emits from there.

Minneapolis is cool as fuck. I lived there for three years. Wes Mantooth is up there if I remember correctly. MN might just be a little out of the way though. If you do go that way you could stop in Milwaukee. We can go to all my fave guitar shops!

[jfrey]

Manhattan and Brooklyn. I live in Boston, which is a cool spot to visit, although I wouldn't want to live there... oh... right...

[madmax1012]

Boston is my favorite city in the country

[jfrey]

Boston is my favorite city in the country

You've never lived here have you?

I've been here 7 years so far and it is killing me. NOTHING IS EVER OPEN. I don't know how places stay in business. When I lived in NY I didn't go out until around 12. If you do that here you'll have to go home almost as soon as you get anywhere. And this city is so set on living in the past. If I ever became super wealthy, I would buy up all the "historic" buildings, and then have them all knocked down in one day at the same time before anyone could stop it. If I were single I'd be out of here so fast.

/ rage

To the subject of the OP. You should visit Seattle also.

[D.o.S.]

Boston is my favorite city in the country

You've never lived here have you?

100% agree.

[Wes Mantooth]

Minneapolis is cool as fuck. I lived there for three years. Wes Mantooth is up there if I remember correctly. MN might just be a little out of the way though. If you do go that way you could stop in Milwaukee. We can go to all my fave guitar shops!

Yeah Minneapolis is pretty sweet and I'm possibly purchasing a house about right near downtown that I'll be living in this summer so if you need a place to crash just let me know

I think it'll be even more fun living in Minneapolis once I turn 21 in the fall but there's still plenty of other things to do besides drink. There are tons of bike trails along the Mississippi and there's the Mall of America (overrated if you ask me but some people dig it). Lots of great places to eat too. I'm pretty sure the neighborhood my school is in has the most hipster restaurant known to man, the food is all vegan and surprisingly good to a carnivore like myself. The judgmental hipster attitudes sported by a lot of the customers and employees just ruin the place though. But I have to say the best burgers are in St. Paul, The Nook is simply amazing

TLDR: I like to eat a lot. The Twin Cities has a lot of good food, the end.

[madmax1012]

Boston is my favorite city in the country

You've never lived here have you?

I've been here 7 years so far and it is killing me. NOTHING IS EVER OPEN. I don't know how places stay in business. When I lived in NY I didn't go out until around 12. If you do that here you'll have to go home almost as soon as you get anywhere. And this city is so set on living in the past. If I ever became super wealthy, I would buy up all the "historic" buildings, and then have them all knocked down in one day at the same time before anyone could stop it. If I were single I'd be out of here so fast.

/ rage

To the subject of the OP. You should visit Seattle also.

actually I grew up in New Hampshire. I moved to florida, but my girlfriend goes college up in Mass.

OP, don't come to florida. Miami's overrated unless you're tanned and roiled