Mundane Moments

I really want to go to Portland. Mainly because of Portlandia.

Missed the red arrows as I was standing on the wrong side of the house

Wife’s aunties used to live out there. It’s apparently similar to the other outlier cities I mentioned but (as lampooned in one particular Portlandia sketch where they’re chasing the sun) it rains. A lot.
Sadly, Kyle MacLachlan is not the mayor.

I visited Seattle a few years ago and was fortunate that the weather was great. Would definitely be on the list of places I’d live if I could afford it.

I am shocked that the capital city of fixie riding hipsterism appeals to you. Shocked.

But they are really really loud?

Might have a really really big house.

I was in the garden, and they fly quite quickly

My house is a few miles from where they're based, pretty much on their approach to runway, and so we often see them up close.

I'm still not tired of the Top Gun quotes, which is fortunate as they are mandatory, of course.

Viper gets name-checked daily, and Mrs. Seán is delighted every time.

Agreed, not been for ages but Seattle was great fun, really good bar and music scene.

I’d recommend a couple of days in DC, it’s an easy city to walk around, great food scene and plenty of sight seeing, museums etc

I once spent a few hours in DC, it was January and it was freezing. I was in Richmond for work and we drove up to DC at the weekend. We basically spent the whole time ducking in and out of the hire car trying to keep warm and then popping out to see a famous sight. Even in those conditions it was an interesting place, although my sense of America, from there and also New York, is that they do memorials really well but learn very little from them.

On the same work trip we did an outward bound type of thing, they called it teambuilding. Three people ended up in hospital with hypothermia. Suffice to say ours was the last trip out to do that activity, at least in January.

Another vote for DC. Also, Asheville (mentioned by someone else) was good and we also liked Savannah.

Agree with Russ on California. I'd be happy to go back to San Francisco (been several times) as well as Santa Barbera and San Diego. I spent a couple of months in Del Mar near San Diego, but that was in the 70s and things might just have changed a bit since then.

Hope the three in hospital teamed up to sue their arses.

Or got fired for being wusses.

Miami is generally a shithole with the exception of the arts district Full of arsehole people. South beach is totally over rated.

Los Angeles is horrible too. Full of awful people and generally having a massive cultural vacancy that could fill a valley. (Which it does).

San Fran is ace. San Diego used to be ace. Northern California is nice. What are we talking about anyway? I generally don’t like hot places. Although Chicago is going to hit 100f on Thursday with humidity. Yuck.

Chicago: Travel agent.