# I went to \_\_, but I didn't \_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912 "2019-09-27T14:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/21 "2019-09-27T17:29:56Z")
I went to the Southwest and the general Four Corners vicinity, but I didn’t go to the actual Four Corners monument and stand in four states at once. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/22 "2019-09-27T17:37:23Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I’ve been to Vienna many times, but never bought a can of Vienna sausages. I went to the Virgin Islands, but… ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/23 "2019-09-27T17:57:40Z")
I’ve never gambled in Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/24 "2019-09-27T18:09:21Z")
I’ve been to Vienna several times and even went out to the Prater, but never rode the gondola ferris wheel. Spent five months on St. Thomas and never went in the water, let alone did any snorkeling. Went to Vietnam, but didn’t shoot anyone. Went to Berchtesgaden, Germany, but didn’t do the salt mine tour. Spent five months in Cairo, but never rode a camel at the pyramids. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/25 "2019-09-27T18:24:43Z")
I went to London for 2 weeks and did not visit Big Ben or the palace. I lived in Los Angeles for 3 years and never visited the Chinese theater. I’m not a big fan of tourist spots. Saw many as a child and they were all more trouble than they were worth. If I’m visiting somewhere I am vastly more interested in how the locals live and the things they do than the tourist traps. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/26 "2019-09-27T18:41:16Z")
I visited San Francisco many times before I moved, and I’ve lived there for over six years now. I’ve never ridden a cable car. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/27 "2019-09-27T18:57:56Z")
London and France. Didn’t see anyone’s underpants. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/28 "2019-09-27T20:06:25Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > London and France. Didn’t see anyone’s underpants. :mad: You must have gone there before the trend of wearing low rise jeans with a thong underneath took off. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/29 "2019-09-27T20:25:54Z")
Spent a great week in London, UK visiting tourist spots. Did not ride the London Eye. $35 for a half hour?! C’mon! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/30 "2019-09-27T21:56:18Z")
I went to Houston, but I didn’t visit the Rothko Chapel (and I \*love \*his stuff - but it was that or NASA…). ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/31 "2019-09-27T23:05:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Ditto. $60 for 50 minutes in 2000. Grazi, but no. I’ve never taken the touristy gondola ride either in our 3 visits, but we went to the construction shop and actually helped paint one! Instead, we always took the traghetto. 50? eurocents and kids are free. Plus you get to stand up the whole time- way more authentically Venezian! I lived in Chicago for 5 years and never went up the Sears Tower, NYC for 5 years and never went up the WTC (I went up the Empire State Building but I lived in Chicago at the time), and in Seattle 15 years and never been in the Space Needle. I’m hard pressed to think of the most outstanding touristy item that I haven’t gone to in a destination- maybe going to Berlin and not seeing Brandenberg Gate or the Berlin Wall. Oh, I’ve got it, I’ve been to Amsterdam ~10 times and you would have to pay me $1000 to go to the Anne Frank house. Absolutely no interest. That story is real enough to me already. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/32 "2019-09-28T00:30:47Z")
Went to Honolulu, didn’t go to the beach. A friend of mine got married there about 20 years ago. That’s the only reason I went; I’ve never had any interest in visiting Hawaii. He got married at a club that was featured on _Magnum, P.I._, which is close to the water… the sand was on the other side of a retaining wall from the wedding. That’s as close to the beach as I got while I was there. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/33 "2019-09-28T00:54:57Z")
Lived in southern CA most of my life, but have never been to San Francisco, Las Vegas or Catalina Island. (But, I have managed to get to Everest Base Camp, the Taj Mahal, Bali, Rangoon and a few other places, so I’m not actually a homebody.) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/34 "2019-09-28T02:08:30Z")
Another ‘went to Venice, didn’t ride a gondola’ person. Been to Chicago without ordering a hot dog. Been to Vegas without going in a casino. Been to Pigeon Forge several times, but haven’t been to Dollywood. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/35 "2019-09-28T02:44:03Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Traveling through the general area, made a slight diversion to Las Vegas just to go to the Hofbrauhaus and have some food and beer. Fastest way in to and from the place. Just wanted to eat: didn’t give a damn about 'Vegas as such. > > If the place was located in a place like Boulder City, I would have been happier and felt less inconvenienced. For next time, we do have a brew pub here in Boulder City… not the best food in town but not horrible. You can always drink in the beer garden and eat somewhere else. But if you fail to visit the dam, you can come back to this thread and post that was what you didn’t do. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/36 "2019-09-28T03:07:52Z")
I went to Orlando but didn’t go to Gatorland. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/37 "2019-09-28T03:10:02Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I went to Amsterdam twice, but I didn’t visit any of the coffeeshops. Likewise, and I didn’t go to the Van Gogh Museum either. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/38 "2019-09-28T08:12:33Z")
I’ve been to Paris five times and Rome once, but never visited the catacombs. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/39 "2019-09-28T08:18:09Z")
I’ve been in Lady Liberty’s crown several times but never Central Park. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912/40 "2019-09-28T09:02:51Z")
We’ve driven by the Basketball Hall of Fame a few times but never went in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-went-to-__-but-i-didnt-__/840912.md?page=3)