Seattle or Denver?

[sb001]

I'm an East Coast guy, tons more interesting history and sites.
Last time i was in Denver was for a college buddy's wedding up in the mountains just west of the city, in Georgetown. The bride's dad and I got to talking and he had made it big in real estate and asked if I wanted to stay out there and work for him. Ugh, one of the biggest mistakes of my life to say no to that

Fun fact about Casa Bonita, they used to have two other locations, one in Tulsa Ok and one in my hometown of Little Rock Ark. for some god only knows reason. The one in Little Rock burned down decades ago. The one in Tulsa stayed open until just about 7-8 years ago I think. Neither had the cliff divers though (I didn't find out about those until years later- imagine my surprise when the South Park episode popped up)
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[2type2]

Im with Cusser, Durango is a nice visit. Instead of going to the Big City, why not fly into ABQ and drive up to DGO? Then you could see Mesa Verde and also have fun on the train to Silverton.Spend a day or overnight on an astounding drive to Telluride or Ouray for the hot springs. Whatever. I just don't like staying in one city for the whole week, I've done this trip and it's great.
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[Malokin Martin]

Don’t stay in either city. As stated before, cities suck.

Being an airplane guy... Seattle would be more interesting. They have an SR71 at the Boeing field museum with no railings, Kennedy’s Air Force one, #1 737, a concord and all the regular WWII planes. AND we’re getting the apollo space shuttle while they’re remodeling the smithsonian... it’s a great aviation city. Take the wifey out to Snoqualmie falls for a swanky dinner and then haul her through the 2 separate airplane museums, lake Washington pontoon plane tour and end with the Boeing factory tour

Oh.. and we have a bunch of nature stuff apparently

[cdennisg]

[aeromech]

At this point we may not be able to do this trip after all. The reason is I’m not sure I can afford to use my vacation time at work. We are going to New Orleans and Mexico in the next couple months.

My wife would very much like to go to Denver though. Mostly because there’s a concert at the Red Rock we’d love to attend. We never had plans to just stay in Denver. I was just where we’d fly into. The plan was to get a car and head up into the mountains.

I’ll take closer look at my remaining vacation time on the books but right now it looks like we will need to put this trip off for the year. Thanks to everyone for their input
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[VW_Jimbo]

Got family in a suburb of Denver. There about every other year for a week or so. I like to go shooting up in the mountains, but that is all I have found to do there.

If you like hiking, there are some great sights to be seen. Pack something for lunch and get out and hike. Take a side arm with you, never know what you may run into.


Got family up in Portland that we see every so often, and only in the summer time. During a visit up there, we took a trip to Seattle for a few days. Not much to do. Drank a cup of coffee at the original Starbucks but that is all I found. I am sure there is more!

I can speak for Portland. They have several good breweries and also a Beer Theatre!!! That was cool!


When ever me and the wife go on vacation for just us, we love Maui! Highly recommend it! Good food, sunshine, great surf and hiking all over the place!
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[nsracing]

Vacation - what is that?

I am overdue for a nice one. Thought of SC and do some shrimping. Or maybe some wild hog hunting.

[Xevin]

Hey dum dum. Screw that. Fly to Portland and stay at my place 3 hrs away to Seattle. Or you could stay at my place in Olympia about an hour outside Seattle. Plus you could borrow my Subaru or bus. Either way you could hit Seattle if you feel the need and it would be much cheaper. Both Seattle and Denver are cool (For cities) Portland just a big town version of both. Oh and if you decide Portland, you can meet a lot of your Samba buddy’s even if it’s not a Monday.

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