For me going to Cincy is like taking a trip to NYC or somehting

[Catfish Bob]

Northern Ky and Cincy is just such a strange area to me. Walking on the massive bridge across the massive river. Then at the end of the bridge when you go up all them steps by the arena. That little area right there just gives me a feeling like I'm entering the Hunger Games.   The railings are all beat up with paint chipping off. You can just tell that even though no one was there at that exact time that in the past millions of people have gone through there. The stairs are dirty af and littered with cigarette butts and 16oz beer cans.  All the giant concrete everywhere and giant infrastructure.  All of the old world buildings with their amazing architecture.  I just feel like I'm in another world when I'm up there.   But I also never  travel to cities.  When we travel its always like Destin or Myrtle Beach or Gatlinburg.  So to me the Cincinnati area is just amazing. Everything is so massive. The amount of excavating it must've taken all them years ago to build that area because its like everything is on a giant steep hill. All the little neighborhood corner pubs and bars are also very interesting to me.     Just where I'm at here in Ky their isn't anything like whats up there. I go to UofL or UK games in their big stadiums but its nothing like the ones in Cincy on the river front. The open ends I guess is what just makes seem so much more bigger than Commonwealth or Cardinal stadium. Plus all the huge infrastructure around the stadiums is just wild.  Its the Hunger Games when I go up there I swear.  A whole different world.  

[CincyInDC]

You remind me of a family I'm friends with who live in an Austrian farmhouse. They raise cattle, log and sell firewood, hunt deer and chamois (a kind of wild goat-antelope) and run a very very old-school hotel.  The next "big" city where they buy everything they need is less than 10,000 people.  Years ago the patriarch took a trip to Munich (metro area then was over 1M people) and was overwhelmed and decided not to do that again.  It was too big for him.  Anyway, good on you for not being closed to new places and experiences.

[Catfish Bob]

10 hours ago, CincyInDC said:

You remind me of a family I'm friends with who live in an Austrian farmhouse. They raise cattle, log and sell firewood, hunt deer and chamois (a kind of wild goat-antelope) and run a very very old-school hotel.  The next "big" city where they buy everything they need is less than 10,000 people.  Years ago the patriarch took a trip to Munich (metro area then was over 1M people) and was overwhelmed and decided not to do that again.  It was too big for him.  Anyway, good on you for not being closed to new places and experiences.

I love Cincy but I'll admit  that some of the people scare the bejesus out of me. 

 

The dude who I had to sit by at the Reds game.  How do I explain this. It was like his tattoo was a cocoon and his face was the only thing coming out of the cocoon. From his chin down his neck and up the back of his head was all cocoon tatto or something.  It gave me the fucking creeps and most  definitely adds to that Hunger Games feeling I get around that city.    

[Bleeds Orange]

On 5/6/2023 at 1:42 AM, Catfish Bob said:

When we travel its always like Destin or Myrtle Beach or Gatlinburg.  

 

This sentence caught my attention. We have been traveling to the panhandle area (PCB, Destin, Gulf Shores) for years and would like to go somewhere new. We had considered Myrtle Beach but I keep hearing stories about youth gone wild, avoiding going out at night because of potential crime, and lack of safety and civility, in general. Is all this overblown? How does it compare to Destin?

[Catfish Bob]

On 6/29/2023 at 7:32 PM, Bleeds Orange said:

 

This sentence caught my attention. We have been traveling to the panhandle area (PCB, Destin, Gulf Shores) for years and would like to go somewhere new. We had considered Myrtle Beach but I keep hearing stories about youth gone wild, avoiding going out at night because of potential crime, and lack of safety and civility, in general. Is all this overblown? How does it compare to Destin?

Yeah Myrtle Beach isn't what it used to be.  Last time we went it was pretty bad.  I like Destin and just Florida in general 100x more. Would love to move to Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge and just live in a camper at a campground and get a job at the buffet. lol  Thats my retirement plan at least.

[Bleeds Orange]

On 7/1/2023 at 12:24 AM, Catfish Bob said:

Yeah Myrtle Beach isn't what it used to be.  Last time we went it was pretty bad.  I like Destin and just Florida in general 100x more. Would love to move to Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge and just live in a camper at a campground and get a job at the buffet. lol  Thats my retirement plan at least.

 

Well, that kinda goes along with what we've been hearing over the past few years, so I guess we won't be going there. Thanks for the feedback.