mi*vida*loca
Collect memories, not things
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- Mar 29, 2008
Dominican Republic
I spent 6 months there on a college co-op and lived in an apartment across the street from Delta college. I thought "oh, it can't be that bad" when I moved there - it was worse. High crime, oppressively hot in the summer, smoky when they are burning off the fields, and that scary delta fog in the winter. It's kinda-sorta close-ish to other places that I would go back to in a heartbeat (Santa Cruz, the Bay Area, Yosemite, even South Lake Tahoe) but too far away from those places to even make it a jumping-off point. I'll go to those other places but Stockton? No thank you - never again.LOL. I went to College there, as did my son.
Oh wow. Disagree. BGW is my favorite park outside of Disney. I guess we had wildly different experiencesBusch Gardens, Williamsburg. I found it to be not very efficient in its layout, and (at least on the day we went) a lot of the rides were down. It was difficult to find our way around, and it became a bit of a slog to get through the place. One and done.
We had a fine time in France. The only 'bad' encounter I remember was stopping in at a restaurant around 10pm and asking if we could be seated just to have coffee and dessert. You would've thought we asked for their first born.
The response was, "No. Never!!!" And eye daggers that we could even ask such a thing lol.
What? You never experienced a peat storm? Where the wind kicks up west of Stockton in the Delta and kicks up peat moss dust and blows it into Stockton and almost turns day in to night.I spent 6 months there on a college co-op and lived in an apartment across the street from Delta college. I thought "oh, it can't be that bad" when I moved there - it was worse. High crime, oppressively hot in the summer, smoky when they are burning off the fields, and that scary delta fog in the winter. It's kinda-sorta close-ish to other places that I would go back to in a heartbeat (Santa Cruz, the Bay Area, Yosemite, even South Lake Tahoe) but too far away from those places to even make it a jumping-off point. I'll go to those other places but Stockton? No thank you - never again.
Never say never but there are places I don't ever desire to visit again. Barcelona (Spain in general), Mexico in its entirety, Las Vegas and Reno.
I think you are thinking about New Orleans, specifically the French Quarter. Not so much Pot, but Beer, urine and vomit. I would go back again though, in a heart beat. My daughter went to Tulane, in N.O. and had some spotty memories of parents weekend, but she was successful throughout her college career. She wasn't arrested even once.Seattle
The smell of pot and urine is our overriding memory.
That is closely followed by the expletive laden commands from locals to get out of their way whilst walking along the pavement.
ford family
So true. The right person makes a world of difference.I dont have one,even if you were miserable at a place, you know the right things to do and are with the right person it could be lots of fun
yep....that is why I hunt rattlesnakes in Yuma and bring them home.....right thing to do in the sunniest place on earthI dont have one,even if you were miserable at a place, you know the right things to do and are with the right person it could be lots of fun