Miami to Cali ....The ultimate roadtrip
Hey FOlks...my postgraduate plans are to get outta miami for a couple of weeks and head out west and find a new place to live and work. Ive done the roadtrip up the north east enough. So Im writing here to ask for suggestions and advice from past experiences. Liberal artsy areas are where Im most drawn to i.e. santa fe.
I plan to travel up western florida ...hit the salvedor dali museum in petersburg....stroll through seaside,fl and take it from there. I want to go through alot of quiet,quaint cities that are the opposite of miami. Then get to San Diego...drive up the coast north and slowly make my way back east through the northern states. This trip in the middle of winter probably sounds brutal in a way...but I cant wait any longer.
Any kind of help and suggestions on great places of interest (take into account snow) would be awesome. In a way I just want to get lost, not have a clock around and just look through my hasseblad and shoot.
Im a dreamer...........
Keep the Hasseblad on the seat
A Hasseblad? That is one expensive camera -- what kind of graduate school are you about to be liberated from? In any case, the meandering road trip style is the one I prefer whenever I can pull it off. For starters, I would suggest a read of the <a href = "http://www.roadtripamerica.com/mftdb/053198ca.htm">Art of the RoadTrip</a>.
Apalachicola, Florida is fun place to hang. Artsy, liberal sounds a good match with Eureka Springs, AR. Pretty amazing town. Sandpoint, ID and Sedona, NM are also good bets (although Idaho is a bit brisk right now).
Have fun!
Berkeley is Old-money and a mix
Bob,
I know Berkeley, CA has the reputation for being a liberal community and there is some evidence to support the notion with the transient political voter base (attending UCB) who regularily invoke their constitutional right to mess with local politics (I lived in Berkeley for a couple of years while attending UCB myself) -- but Berkeley's old guard is "old money" and actually very, very conservative.
Oregon, in the same vein wears its liberalism on their collective sleeves, but with exception of Portland and a couple of college-themed towns -- residents tend to be more conservative than corresponding sections of California and Arizona.
Mark