Favorite Places...

I'm doing this post sort of early because I've realized that I can't trust myself to remember this kind of stuff.
It's hard to say where my favorite places in this country are because, sadly enough, I haven't been to very many of them. At some point in my life, I want to get around to visiting all 50 states, but that hasn't happened yet. It doesn't help that pretty much all of my family lives either in Texas or in North Carolina.
While I'm not actually overly fond of Texas, I love Austin. It's really an amazing city. Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see that much of it because most of my life takes place within a three-mile radius of my house. I think I take it for granted sometimes because I've lived here for most of my life and can't remember the city where I was born, but when I think about living anywhere else, I can't imagine it. Everywhere else just seems too... Normal. I don't think I could deal with that! I get kind of scared just thinking about it, and that is NOT an exaggeration.

Besides Austin, I'd have to say that I really like North Carolina. It's always summer when I'm there, and it is absolutely beautiful. It's a bit cooler (I'm talking about temperature here) than in Texas, and there are trees everywhere, and... I don't know. I can't really describe it, but it's amazing. I also have a lot of happy memories associated with it.

I also really like Arizona. Most people think of it a just a huge desert, and a lot of it IS desert, but I don't think they fully realize what a desert is. Arizona certainly isn't just a bunch of sand and cacti! It isn't really all that hot, either, especially in the north. And no-one that has seen the Grand Canyon could ever say that Arizona isn't interesting. I think that the Grand Canyon is one of those things that everyone who can should see at some point in their life. You really can't have any idea how vast and awe-inspiring it is until you've seen it and been down inside of it. I really can't find words to describe it.

I think that the last place I'm going to talk about is New York City. I've only been there once, but it was a wonderful experience. I'm not usually a fan of big cities, but it was so much more than that. There is so much to see and do there that I hardly experienced any of it. There's also a lot of history to be found there if you choose to look for it. This description of it isn't really doing it justice, but for some reason I can't think of anything else to say about it right now.