with pants

I’m gonna miss the kilt….but I’ll just hope they show him without them both occasionally….oh and next season speculation on when the show returns and an interview with Frank/Black Jack: 

Today I thought I’d continue on with My favorite places in the US

San Francisco—I have never spent a lot of time here—Twice on that bus trip in the late 60s and that was basically changing buses to go on to Salinas and one time when my dear departed mother drove us to California and back also in the 60s—We spent a few hours just wandering around the city–riding a street car–I nearly fell off being the great klutz that I am–and gazing down at the bay—from the lofty hillsides of the beautiful city.  We finally left as the fog moved in and as we drove down to Salinas (again) it came between the hills, filing the lower divides and looking just  like ghostly fingers reaching out to us, quite an eerie sight I must say.  I can’t tell you were to go or what to see there…I can just say that even being there for a short time was special to me and I wonder why I have not returned again.   http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/explore

the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and a favorite site for all manner of paranormal fiction including one of my favorites the Dark Hunter series http://sherrilynkenyon.com/series.php?id=7

For those of you that’s more conventional there’s all manner of excursions on the Mississippi

Or wander out on the River Road (warning in order to see the river from the road you must climb a 20 something foot dike but I did and it is actually there–or was when I visited in the 80s).  Oh and the reason for the trip here–the wonderful old plantations that pre-date even my visit and are well worth the sojourn from the Big Easy.

and the only place that comes near to being as wild as Bourbon Street is the nearby swamp—New Orleans is below sea level and surrounded by water and lots of dikes to hold it back–here too you can find tours:  http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/tours/swamptours.html   Now that’s something I didn’t do when I was here.

San Antonio (yeah the one in Texas)—How can you beat a city with a great area to just roam around in like the River Walk, or with all the history including Spanish missions–one of which is an icon of Texas and American Freedom fighters the Alamo.  And if you can beat Texas hospitality please tell me where cause I want to move there in the near future.

Chicago—I know it’s a much more down and dirty and gritty place than all the others, I took a year of my nurses training at a hospital west of here and we would come in on the weekends.  I have been here several times since–I saw the Beatles and the Doors here and wandered Old Town when it was a hippie refuge.  Since then one of the companies I worked for had headquarters here and I was pleased how they managed to make the main part of the city tourist friendly and besides who can not love a city that dyes it’s river green on St Patty’s Day?

Every visit I have only spent a few hours in Savannah, Ga. but I loved every minute.  the Squares, the cemeteries giving a history of the US like no other.   The houses are fantastic and one can spend hours just wandering through the old neighborhoods and gazing at the wonderful old places.  The main area to eat and shop is down along the old docks and was originally a place for sailors to entertain themselves in port (think booze and broads as in the paid for kind).  It’s more civilized now, but still fun.