Travel and Leisure's top cities for 2008

[Whisky Dog]

Santa Fe is one of my favorite places to vacation. Cool, laid back, and the strongest F'n margaritas I've ever had at a restaurant at Maria's.

[balli]

I have to agree that Salt Lake City is pretty awesome. We've gone there a couple times for summer league and it's unlike any other "big" city I've seen. Impressive scenery, most everything is clean and all the roads and highways are actually built with a plan to make driving around easy. I was expecting it to be lame but it was actually one of the coolest places I've ever been.

The Mormon thing does take a while to get used to. At a restaurant, we actually ran into a family where the guy had two wives. It took me a couple seconds to put 2 and 2 together as he was introducing people but they seemed happy so I guess whatever works. I've heard that bigamy in SLC was a thing of the past but evidently not. Overall though, almost everyone was overly friendly so I didn't really have any complaints about the people.

What I found funny is that most of the nightclubs in Salt Lake City were gay/lesbian clubs. In downtown SLC, most of the billboards were advertising for gay/lesbian clubs and NBA players would actually go there because they were the biggest clubs with the most people. It seemed like SLC had a higher than usual rebellious teenager percentage, which probably makes sense.

Oh and the hip hop stations on the SLC radio were actually awesome. Blows anything I've heard in other cities out of the water. That, too, probably has something to do the rebellion . . .

But yeah, @ SLC. It's similar to San Antonio in that it's a laidback city that is an easy place to live.

Nice of you to say timvp. I meant to respond to this post immediately, but I kept procrastinating and procrastinating... and I've always felt bad about it since you took the time to write several laudatory paragraphs about my home town.

As far as the polygamy thing goes, in SLC itself I've only seen polygamists a couple times in my life... but that's probably a consequence of the locals living in an uber-divisive mormon/non-mormon world, where we literally avoid one another's chosen shopping/eating establishments.

We are gay as , not sure why, but yeah, there's a lot of gay people here. Which is no skin off my back. I'd rather be surrounded by teh gays than I would republicans.

And yes, you nailed it with the rebellious teenager thing. It is the reason we have awesome hip hop stations. Probably too the reason why everyone who's not mormon has decided to become alcoholic. It kind of sucks that we're so reactionary, but it beats the alternative.

If you and Kori ever come back for the Revue, shoot me a pm and I'll give you some local advice about restaurants, stuff to do, etc (if you were inclined to want it). Anyways, just wanted to say thanks for your post.

[Thunder Dan]

Chicago is my favorite place to visit