We were in Naples for a few days over Christmas break. Awesome place besides not much public parking along the beach. Most of it is reserved for residents with passes. But I get it realizing it helps keep some visitors away. We tend to go to state parks for the beaches as they aren’t as crowded as other places.
Son feels the same way.
Want to see trash along the roadway, drive north on the interstate going to Rockford, IL. It looks like people throw their trash bags out and drag it behind them.
Huntsville is decent but only because it is a creation of the Federal Government and it’s rules and regulations! NASA and the aeronautics industry attracts a better class of folks than what you will find in most Alabama locales.
Hey now. River towns like Sioux City, Dubuque, Quad Cities, etc have some real historic charm to them too.and they've really cleaned up and are undergoing a renaissance the last decade or so.
Take a tour of the war zone or south valley. That will get your attention if you are new to ABQ.
Or a cruise down Central...or any number of homeless camps that are popping up in parks, school, and alleys everywhere.
Many town/cities also have regulations on that type of stuff. We get notice from the city if our grass is too long. They’ll eventually mow it and charge you. Can’t park in the grass, only so many vehicles, have sidewalks in certain areas etc. They actually enforce the things and I’m thankful for it.
I’m leaving the prosperous, well kept confines of IC to do the Conesville, Nichols, Columbus Junction, to Lone Tree circuit next week.
Memphis looked like a total dump on the outskirts. Lots of poor in Mississippi and Alabama.
Where'd you eat down there? We got back on Thursday.
Haven't been there in 15+ years. Used to be a fun time going down there and drinking cheap beer and eating who-knows-what-type-of-meat street tacos. Won't be going back anytime soon for sure. Spent a weekend in an orphanage there and under no circumstances were we to leave the safe confines of the 8 ft concrete walls and locked iron gate after dark.
Have a good friend who runs a ministry down there. You don't go out walking at night. Was down there a week in November. 3 persons they were working with family to help were killed that week about 3 blocks away. 1 was gunned down by drug members because he was trying to break away from it.
Lived in VA for 15 years and always asked the ahole New Yorkers and New Jerkian’s if they were aware of this as well. Add in the those from Penn, Conn, and Assachusetts too. They couldn’t head back north soon enough for me when took over a restaurant or bar area with their loud, overbearing selves.
They used to have pink ribbons on all the telephone poles. Not sure if they still do. There was literally thousands. The local who ran the orphanage told me each ribbon represents a teenage girl who was kidnapped and killed and her organs harvested by the cartels to sell to Chinese autocrats. Sick, scary shit.
