travel, living locations

[wispfox]

I often wonder what it is that other people look for when traveling, beyond visiting specific people. Same as far as where people choose to live. So! I ask y'all what you think.

When you are traveling, especially if it involves returning to a place you've visited before, what makes your decision on where to go? I'd rather avoid answers which are specific to people instead of location, because people is already why I travel most of the time. I want other answers. I want to know where to go, why to go, and what to do when there. Outdoors and indoors, places to eat and places to visit, places to feed my mind, my ears, or my eyes. Sell your favorite places to visit to me!

Similarly, if you like where you live, or somewhere that you have lived in the past, why? If the answer is specific people, that's fine, but I want to know more than that. Is it access to specific social groups? Activities like museums or parks or forests? Safe neighborhoods? What?

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

The places I like to visit for a weekend trip are (1) within a few hours drive, and (2) relatively low in population, and (3) scenic, and (4) reasonably inexpensive.

Examples: York County Pennsylvania, where pagawne and I spent a lovely weekend a couple of weeks ago, checking out the county historical trust and the scenic (and safe) downtown walkways. The same can be said of Mechanicsburg PA, home of the nation's oldest herb shop, and Lancaster County PA, home of the Amish folks who will take you for buggy rides and - if you ask very kindly - will share their views of the world along the way. Going slightly further afield there is the Virginia tidewater country, down around Chincoteague Island. Or the Shenandoah Valley, from Harper's Ferry stretching 300 miles south into Tennessee and offering the breathtaking vistas of the Blue Ridge parkway just to the east.