# Your best friend from out of the area visits you. Which one place do you show them? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455 "2009-02-26T01:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/41 "2009-02-27T00:27:55Z")
[http://www.toirockinthaifood.com/sunset/index.html](http://www.toirockinthaifood.com/sunset/index.html) Best Thai\Chinese anywhere. Weirdest decor ever. We’ll sit and stuff ourselves all durn day! ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/42 "2009-02-27T00:59:50Z")
The only unique thing I can think of in my town is George Washington’s very first law office. While I find it interesting, I’m not sure everyone would. Oh, there’s also the grave of the great singer Patsy Cline, but again, I doubt that many would share my interest in that. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/43 "2009-02-27T01:51:41Z")
[http://www.geographia.com/antiguanews/messages/153/13549.html?1188127502](http://www.geographia.com/antiguanews/messages/153/13549.html?1188127502) Cades reef - you don’t have to dive, you can snorkel it too. [http://www.dennisantigua.com/](http://www.dennisantigua.com/) If you don’t want to get wet. In my home town of Oxford it would be the Pitt Rivers Museum: > **[Home](https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/home)** ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/44 "2009-02-27T01:55:10Z")
I gotta pick _**[one](http://www.moabactionshots.com/gallery2.php?cat=G&lce=201&start_pic=1)**_? ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/45 "2009-02-27T02:00:14Z")
> [@SharkB8](#): > > Cool topic, **Reply**! I live in Rhode Island. I will take people to Boston, Newport and the southern coast of Rhode Island and make sure they see the ocean. > > I did the Freedom Trail in Boston with one buddy, which was a nice workout. M Reserve unit is in the North End of Boston, so since enlisting, I’ve found a lot of little gems there. Including [Ernesto’s](http://www.ernestosnorthend.com/), where you can get a slice a pizza (which is really a quarter of the pie) and a soda for $5! > > On the southern coast of RI, I’ll take them to [Galilee](http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Jerusalem,+Rhode+Island&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=q8-mSdnxLYS2nQfdp8X2Dw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title), which obviously is across the water from Jerusalem! > > And pretty much all of Newport is pretty cool. One buddy was particularly intrigued by what’s called the [Viking Tower](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Tower_(Rhode_Island)). Oh, another Rhode Islander I didn’t know about. Yeah, it’s generally the Breakers for us when we have visitors. It’s the biggest of the Mansions. I recently tried to entice some visitors to the Chihuly exhibit at the RISD Museum, but they didn’t know what that was. Their loss. If it’s a like-minded visitor we might go down to Tiverton to the wonderful Sakonnet Purls, which is a great yarn shop and also a lovely drive from my home in Barrington. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/46 "2009-02-27T02:10:01Z")
Trip through the tunnel to the Windsor Ballet? ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/47 "2009-02-27T02:52:51Z")
I live in Bethnal Green, London. There are about 100 art galleries within 20 or 30 minutes’ walk of my house, plus loads of museums and historic houses, ancient and modern theatres, Docklands and its skyscrapers, the Tower of London, the little city farms, a restaurant for almost every cuisine you could think of, gangland history (and present), Jack the Ripper stuff, sites of political and religious upheaval - everything except the seaside, really. It’d be pretty difficult to choose. Brick Lane, perhaps, for being slightly more unusual and packing different experiences into one day; visit the old Huguenot houses, the mosque that has been a church of some sort for pretty much every other religion, the curry restaurants, the ultra-fashionable clubs, a couple of art galleries, all within a mix of extremely poor and extremely rich and al in between living side-by-side. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/48 "2009-02-27T03:27:05Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > What’s the coolest, most interesting, most unique, most bizarre, fanciest, etc. thing or place near you? Suppose somebody is visiting you and you can only show them that one single place, but you can spend up to a whole day there. Describe it! > > Of course, please include your location (down to the GPS coordinates, if you’d like!). Nashville. Capital of Tennessee. Music City USA. Athens of the South. Home of the Tennessee Titans. Location of Vanderbilt, Belmont, David Lipscomb, Fisk, Tennessee State, Trevecca Nazarene and various other colleges and universities. Centennial Park (with the Parthenon replica) Opry Mills and Opry House (formerly Opryland) Ryman Auditorium (former home of the Grand Ole Opry) Country Music Hall Of Fame. If it was a “best friend” who had never been here, most likely it would be one of our favorite restaurants for newcomers: Pancake Pantry, Loveless Cafe, Sitar, Jimmy Kelly’s or one of the meat-and-three greasy spoon lunch places. Other than food places, we’d let the visitor pick from the list up top or suggest the Nashville Symphony or Bluebird Cafe. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/49 "2009-02-27T03:36:08Z")
I don’t think I could possibly pick only one place. If I had to, I might take them along a hike of the Salt Road, which starts along the Itoigawa coastline and goes all the way to Matsumoto City in Nagano Prefecture, a little over 100 km away. Obviously, I wouldn’t make the poor sap trek all the way out to Matsumoto, but we’d definitely hike from the coast up into the mountain trails. The road passes near Miyama Park, which would make an excellent place to stop to enjoy the view of the surrounding mountains, the city, and the Sea of Japan. If we were just going to make it a light, one-day excursion, we might take the road as far as Nechi Valley, 10km away. There we could walk around, enjoy the view (the valley and the rivers that run through it are absolutely _gorgeous_). Then we could catch the train at Nechi station, and go back to central Itoigawa. If we really wanted to go crazy, we could probably spend a weekend walking the 60km loop all the way to the border between Itoigawa City and Nagano Prefecture, and then up through the mountains back to the city. But part of that trail takes you as far up as 1200m or so and, from what I’ve heard, is definitely not for the casual hiker. I guess that is one thing that has many things to do within it. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455/50 "2009-02-27T04:55:17Z")
Beercan Beach and the pass. A bucket of shrimp and a leaded cast-- Dolphins, catch, and the sunset. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-friend-from-out-of-the-area-visits-you-which-one-place-do-you-show-them/487455.md?page=2)