September 10, 20179 yr Vegas strip is good for people watching. Vegas is good but trust me, it pales to Venice Beach. If you can imagine it, you will see it and there are some things you couldn't possibly have imagined.
September 11, 20179 yr I have never been to Venice Beach, I've never been west of Texas for that matter. I have visited all of the others at least once though.
September 12, 20179 yr Anyone been to the corn palace in Mitchell, SD? Now, there's someplace obscure.
September 12, 20179 yr I've been to all 5 and would probably substitute Chicago Pier or Beale Street with Bourbon Street in NOLA. Venice is a combination of a freak show & Flea Market, with SoCal sunshine, the Beach, beautiful sunsets, a world class skate park, pickle ballers, hipsters, hoopsters, and let's not forget muscle beach. Beale Street (there is no "H") has an amazing live Blue's scene. Just don't venture one block off because it is a very dangerous city. Nashville has grown so much and the prices have sky rocketed with it: beer, parking, hotels, food, etc. Thursdays are the new Friday and Saturday because you can still catch great live country music but avoid the over crowded street full on weekends with Bachelorette parties. You can also enjoy great indoor concerts and sporting events at Bridgestone Arena. Be sure to attend once during the SEC tourney when a sea of Wildcat fans take over Broadway. Times Square is a great tourist attraction to visit at night for the lights but there are so many other wonderful spots in NYC like Central Park, Little Italy and China Town, The Village and SOHO, and a stop by Rockefeller is always fun. If you do go to Times Square - be sure to take in a Broadway show. Bourbon Street in NOLA offers everything that Beale Street does and then some while on a much broader scale. Great music, bars, Jazz Clubs, hotels, people watching, Oyster Houses, parades and just off Bourbon there are amazing antique shops...
September 12, 20179 yr Just in case the videos that I posted didn't make it clear: I've never been to Nashville I've never been to Memphis I've been to Time Square in NY I've been to the Navy Pier in Chicago I've been to Venice Beach, CA My first experience with Venice Beach was the Sunset Drum Circle, and while it was incredibly interesting, at the time I wasn't aware that it was a weekly event as I just thought that I had happened upon, by coincidence, a very cool impromptu hippy gathering. It was 28 years ago, and a few days before Christmas, and the visual of the sun setting behind this rhasta/bohemian group of hippies playing bongos and such on the sandy beach is permanently, and beautifully fixed in my brain. Yes indeed Venice Beach is an interesting place, and while I have somewhat of a hippy spirit, my 25 year old head could not fathom leaving the comforts of home to live as a transient on the beach. While I admire it in some ways, my 53 year old head can't either.
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