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Seattle and San Francisco get a lot of praise as relfected on this thread, and agreeably they are indeed gorgeous.
I think Washington, DC is a very beautiful city. It feels like a city in a park in a lot of places, the scope of the National Mall, and the abundance of parkland along the Potomic River and Rock Creek Park, lots of trees, and a good amount of density with impressive architecture. Our nation's capital is very underrated when it comes to aesthetics and beauty. Nice looking suburbs to boot.
Seattle. Sitting on a ferry looking at the skyline with the Cascades and Mount Rainier in the backdrop...Wow. Just Wow. Photos can's capture the scope...they just can't.
Experience an Olympic Mountain sunset from the Space Needle... Just once...It's absolutely mesmerizing.
Yes. I have traveled much, but on a clear day, Seattle is just spectacular. Problem is, the weather poses a problem. Best odds of this orgasmic view are July 5th through September 30th. (Please excuse labor day weekend, which for some reason always seems to be cloudy).
I just spent the afternoon eating oysters fresh out of Tomales Bay on a sunny, 68 degree day. Then, we went out to the beach at Pt. Reyes and watched 6-7 foot waves crash against the sandy shore and rocky cliffs in the distance. We then drove the long way back, on Highway 1, winding through Mill Valley, through the foothills of Mt. Tamalpais and over the ridges of the Marin Headlands, as the sun set over my right shoulder.
Making our way down to the Golden Gate Bridge, the city lit up in the distance under wispy pink clouds in the dark blue sky. A 747 out of SFO banked east over Angel Island and gave everyone on the right side of that aircraft an unforgettable view of the undisputed champ of this poll.
And nothing that you mentioned is actually in San Francisco. SF at street level isn't that beautiful, gorgeous surroundings though yes, but several major cities are more tidy, cleaner streets, with better architecture (in grandiosity, ornamentation, scale and variety) than SF, particularly I would put SF 5th behind Seattle, Boston, Chicago, and DC. Sometimes I think I have lost my bookmark on this forum and gone to nature data or something. Beauty of the city is all about street level lived in environment, I didn't think this thread was about the region or metro level but the physical city itself and everything in it.
Last edited by grapico; 03-09-2013 at 10:13 AM..
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