If You Visited In My HomeTown...

Originally Posted By tinkerbell1962

If you came to my home town:

We'd eat at Los Olivos Mexican Restaurant ... very historic and authentic. Fabulous Margaritas!

Tourist Spot would be maybe Old Town - lots of cool shopping and tons of art galleries.

you'd be in: Scottsdale, Arizona

btw, don't come in the summer.

 

Originally Posted By mater4

If you came to my hometown:

Restaurant would be Bavarian World for great german food

Tourist spot: The National Automobile Museum

You would be in Reno,NV

If we take the 45 min drive to North Lake Tahoe...

Restarant is a toss up of Las Panchitas or Garwoods.

Tourist spot: sledding in the winter or boating on the lake in the summer.

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

Mater... Just standing above the water looking down at the castle is amazing!

 

Originally Posted By mater4

Villains I will agree with that even if it is not the DL castle. There is so much to do and so many great places to eat it is impossible to choose. I did get the chance to tour a multi million $$$$ house at the lake as it was being built. That was pretty amazing too.

 

Originally Posted By Labuda

Restaurant: Los Barrios (nom nom nom)
Photo op: The Alamo


Quick, guess what my hometown is.

Here in Austin:
Restaurant: El faro (OMG... Interior Mexican food that is to DIE for.. and less than a mile from my house. SWEET!)
Photo op: either the state Capitol or maybe the statue of Stevie ray down at Lady Bird Lake. Or, speaking of Lady Bird, the spring wildflowers we're blessed with every year.

 

Originally Posted By LadyKluck

If I'm ever in Austin Ann, please pinkie promise me you'll take me to the Stevie Ray statue!!

 

Originally Posted By travellerandquilter

Fav restaurant would either be Nassar's Lebanese or Thai Continential.
Photo op would be a 5 min drive out of town to Mount Gladstone (which is really just a hill) to the look out for a beautiful photo of the Monaro. Mountains for skiing in one direction and the wide brown plains of the Monaro in the other and looking over town. Great place to stop on your way to the snow!
You would be in Cooma NSW Australia!

 

Originally Posted By friendofdd

We would lunch alfresco at Rutabagorz a half block from the university. The food would be tasty creative California cuisine.

Then we would explore, on foot, Old Town and historic district which many call the antique capital of the state.

You would be in Orange, California.

If you had another day, we might leave Orange and drive 5 miles to Disneyland.

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

<--- Austin was one of the places that was considered for weekend away in 2 weeks... Instead it's Nashville (I didn't pick)

 

Originally Posted By Labuda

Klucky, if ever you set foot in Austin, I will DEFINITELY take you down to th SRV statue, AND I'll try to get you to Antone's, too. Austin's home of the blues and where Stevie used to play a lot.

gottaluv - my condolences, man. heheh

I LOVE AUSTIN!

 

Originally Posted By LadyKluck

I'm always scared to go back to Texas because I KNOW I won't want to leave! I left kicking and screaming the first time...I can guarantee it'll happen again!

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

RockyMtnMinnie, The Fort is a great choice. I once had a wild meats sampler with Elk, Venison and Musk Ox. And the Mint Jelups are great. And I would have chosen the top of Mt. Evans. I love Denver. I lived in Aurora for 11 years.

OK my turn:

Restaurant: King Tut Drive In
Attraction: Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine and Caol Camp.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

Oh, and you would be in Beckley, WV

 

Originally Posted By LadyKluck

I feel like I'm watching an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives! This is great!

 

Originally Posted By beamerdog

Thank you, Mickeymouseclub!!! This is a great thread - I'm printing it out just in case I'm in any of these places

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

Hey mater4 -- spent many a summer vacation in Reno -- my grandparents lived there from 1969-1999.

Lots of good memories of Reno. John Ascuaga's Nugget, The May Museum, Idylwild Park, The MGM Grand, Reno Silver Sox Baseball -- fun stuff. And back in the day it was still a cow town trying grow up.

 

Originally Posted By Goofyernmost

If you come to my town you would be simply awed by,

one of the finest junk yards (sorry, automotive recovery yards) in the nation.

three trailer parks, two drugs stores, four gas stations, a grocery chain store, McDonalds, three dentist offices (by the looks of the teeth around here, I'd say that no one ever visits them), a car wash, a civil war monument and a partridge in a pear tree.

That last one was just to see if you were paying attention. For excitement we go down to the fire station and watch the firetrucks rust.

Milton, Vermont

PS. If anyone else from Milton is reading this...Who turned on the computer for you? Thankfully no one knows my exact location.

 

Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

What are you talking about Goofyernmost! Your in freaking Chittenden County! Just miles away from the Chittenden Fish & Game Club, and nearby Burlington where the thing to do is to hang out at Ben & Jerry's and then walk around Nordic Ford at night. Nearby is the Shelburn Museum which is knee deep in antiques and all those Monet! Then there is the Long Trail, Camel's Hump where you can explore the wreckage of that World War 2 airplane.

Oh and lets not forget about the untimate is to go out on lake Champlain on a Wedding cruise, get snookers and look for Champ the local sea monster.

 

Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom

Oh and soon the maple sap will be running and it will be time for a whole lot of Sugar on snow, coffee, sour pickles and plain doughnuts.

 

Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie

>>>three trailer parks, two drugs stores, four gas stations, a grocery chain store, McDonalds, three dentist offices (by the looks of the teeth around here, I'd say that no one ever visits them), a car wash, a civil war monument and a partridge in a pear tree.<<<

So what does the partridge think of the place and what keeps it from just flying away?

>>>Oh and soon the maple sap will be running and it will be time for a whole lot of Sugar on snow, coffee, sour pickles and plain doughnuts.<<<


KT, we made snow ice cream this weekend at the ski hut and were discussing Sugar on the Snow, all of us being from the west. How do you make it? Do you just get a pile of snow and pour maple syrup on top or do you mix it or is there something else involved?