Citizen Wheel Travel for the Anti-Tourist

4Mar/060

Claws Out Debauchery in Dever

Famous for: Altitude and an omelet.
Overview: Denver is, for my money, the most livable city in the U.S. It’s an affordable, good lookin’ town where virtually EVERYONE drinks as much as I do. I had been through Denver a few times on tour and each visit was an exercise in fifth-gear, claws out debauchery and [...]

4Mar/060

Charleston – Sun, Sea, and Tanned Flesh

Overview
Your parents probably went to Charleston and took a carriage ride, toured a plantation, then came home with an overpriced sweetgrass basket they bought in the uber-touristy Market. Dubbed “the Holy City” because of its skyline of church spires, Charleston’s Southern charm is everywhere: in its cobble-stoned streets, its fancy houses along the super posh [...]

4Mar/060

In Austin, “Alamo” Means You Can Drink

Austin is for damned sure the best thing that has ever happened to Texas. Austin has brought you such hits as party at the moon tower, Randal “Pink” Floyd, Wooderson, 6th street, Stevie Ray Vaughan, open container fair play, naked bongos, Beavis and Butthead, and the Slacker. If you’re not quite sold, you need to reset your top priority of the summer.

4Feb/060

Whoring and Scoring in Montreal

Overview: Montreal, Canada’s party town, is the world’s second largest French speaking city. An island in the middle of the Saint Lawrence River, it’s an hour’s drive north of the Vermont/New York Border and five hours east of Toronto.
While Toronto is Canada’s business center, Montreal exists for pure pleasure. You can get anything here – [...]

4Jan/060

L.A. – The City Everyone Kind of Hates

Famous for: movies, TV, celebrities, hedonism, nice weather, perpetual perverted childhoods, empty promises, ungodly traffic, and the crushing of souls.
Overview: L.A. is the city of the future. No, there aren’t flying cars or an entire population clad in silver unitards, but L.A.’s urban sprawl and lack of a true center give cities from Minneapolis to [...]

4Nov/051

Limerick? It’s Barely a City

Overview: When people return home from Ireland, they spread a lot of enthusiasm about their time in Dublin or Galway, or the quaint village of Ballygobackward, but Limerick…? It’s barely a city, with a population of around 85,000, and seems best known for being dreary, damp, and violent. Well. Those people do have a point.
Situated [...]

4Nov/050

Dublin is Pretty Mental

Overview: If you’re after men in tweed caps sipping black pints, and comely dancing lasses, then Dublin’s not your place–try some unheard of Irish village with Bally in the name instead. With the Irish economy booming, Dublin is as mental a city as any in Europe, with an expanding cosmopolitan population still in the early [...]

4Nov/050

Milwaukee – Macro Brew and Serial Killers

Overview – Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin. Although that does not say much for its general girth in comparison to other major cities, there is undocumented evidence that what it lacks in size it makes up for in overall consumption of alcohol, and if getting drunk isn’t your idea of fun, there’s other [...]

4Oct/050

Gay and Gritty Brighton

Overview: Brighton England is known for its Regency Pavilion, collapsing pier, other pier, gay scene, drug scene, drag scene and um … great dress sense. We also have normal things, but apart from the bowling greens you have to dig pretty hard to find them. If you dig in the bowling greens you will probably [...]

4Sep/050

Shoot out Street Lights in Pierre

Famous for: Capital of South Dakota; Oahe Dam; Fort Pierre, Gateway to the West; Not being pronounced correctly by outsiders.
Overview: On March 30, 1743 two French Canadian explorers, Chevalier La Verendrye and his brother Louis La Verendrye stumbled across a wide place in the Missouri river where some Indians were fishing. The two Canucks explained [...]

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