More Thoughts on Travel Destinations
The cities that I have called "home" (though technically, I lived in the suburbs of Chicago) are two of the biggest tourist desinations in the United States. The 2015 Top 25 Destinations list at TripAdvisor has Chicago in 2nd and San Antonio in 24th place, to be specific.
My first visits to both cities was in 1993. I visited San Antonio when I came down to find an apartment. I was still living in the Chicago area at the time, so that counts as travel. Then once we moved down here, my now-ex and I went to visit my parents for the Fourth of July weekend. Since I was living in San Antonio at the time, that counts as travel, as well.
If I were to include Chicago and San Antonio as if they were travel destinations, I would include them after my 1992 visit to Wyandotte Caves. However, since there is just so much to see and I know them so well, I could get totally hung up on them and never be able to make it to my 1995 trip to Seattle.
So I'm thinking about including them as another topic. Right now, I'm doing two National Geographic writeups, then one on my past travel. I could stick Chicago and San Antonio (taking turns between them) in between the two National Geographic writeups, so that the pattern would be National Geographic, Chicago*/San Antonio, National Geographic, past travel. And starting in July, I will probably be (temporarily at least) adding something on current travel, since my son's and my vacation, to New York City, with a side trip to Philadelphia, is this coming July.
*Bear in mind that I haven't been to Chicago since 2010. As a result, my information may be ever-so-slightly out-of-date. I am saving up for a long weekend in Chicago sometime in 2016, just as soon as I figure out what long weekend we will want to go.
My first visits to both cities was in 1993. I visited San Antonio when I came down to find an apartment. I was still living in the Chicago area at the time, so that counts as travel. Then once we moved down here, my now-ex and I went to visit my parents for the Fourth of July weekend. Since I was living in San Antonio at the time, that counts as travel, as well.
If I were to include Chicago and San Antonio as if they were travel destinations, I would include them after my 1992 visit to Wyandotte Caves. However, since there is just so much to see and I know them so well, I could get totally hung up on them and never be able to make it to my 1995 trip to Seattle.
So I'm thinking about including them as another topic. Right now, I'm doing two National Geographic writeups, then one on my past travel. I could stick Chicago and San Antonio (taking turns between them) in between the two National Geographic writeups, so that the pattern would be National Geographic, Chicago*/San Antonio, National Geographic, past travel. And starting in July, I will probably be (temporarily at least) adding something on current travel, since my son's and my vacation, to New York City, with a side trip to Philadelphia, is this coming July.
*Bear in mind that I haven't been to Chicago since 2010. As a result, my information may be ever-so-slightly out-of-date. I am saving up for a long weekend in Chicago sometime in 2016, just as soon as I figure out what long weekend we will want to go.