Yikes this group needs some jazzing.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Tell us your favorite places

Tell two..US ONLY

Block Island, RI - The most well-preserved, uncommercialized place in US, IMHO


Gloucester Harbor, MA - Picture perfect, gritty seaport - the view will take your
breath away...and a beer in the local bar will warm your heart.

[cbayer]

1. New Orleans, hands down.

I love Santa Fe, but it's a distant second.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. I hear you. Thinking about the feeling you get when you are somewhere

and it just hits you how great a place it is. I love Nola and Santa Fe.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I am sure I have mentioned this before but there is nothing

else even remotely like New Orleans and the way of life. The people
are so laid back and seem to know exactly what is important in
life. Think it comes with seeing 1200 people get swept out to sea.

[cbayer]

7. I pine for it at times.

I feel greatly privileged to have spent so many years there. New Orleans is best when you get to immerse yourself in it.

Hope you get back there very soon.

[CTyankee]

3. Chappaquiddick Island off Edgartown, MA.

Perfect, unspoiled beaches and you have to take a little ferry across from Edgartown to get there. You can park and ride car less or drive on but there is a 3 car limit. It's a fast trip of just a few minutes. One paved road, the rest are dirt and have no lights. My daughter and family have a house there. It is delightful in the late spring, summer and early fall. Winter is very dark but gets very little snow.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Growing up in NE and visiting often and have never

been to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket nor Chappaquidick.. On bucket list for sure. Have you ever been to Block Island. Went there last summer after years and it's exactly the same.

[CTyankee]

8. No, I haven't been to Block Island but I know folks who do and they love it!

Chappy is nicest when lots of family come. We go over to Edgartown to shop and eat. I love E'town because it has preserved its 1812 period style

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Looks gorgeous ! Will make a point of going next summer. Here's

some more pics of Block Island

Old hotel and our favorite part is sitting on the porch
bar and watching the harbor




Quaint and cottagy



Rural


Lighthouses


Cliffs

[CTyankee]

10. Looks a lot like the Vineyard!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Oh and toured the Thimble Islands for first time last year. Cool as hell.

where Jane Pauley lives. Have you been there?

[CTyankee]

11. Yes, I have. Years ago. Very nice.

[CTyankee]

12. Forgot to add: Meg Ryan has a house in Chappy. She rides the ferry to E'town car-less.

It's actually a little bench on either side of the ferry. My granddaughters have ridden with her on a few occasions.

Jeff Fager, bigwig at NBC, has a place on Chappy. His wife, Melinda, wrote a cookbook called "Living Off the Sea", all about how Jeff catches fish and she tends garden and they live on that every summer. It's interesting how these 1 percenters perceive themselves. Could you get more pretentious than that? Who does she think she is fooling?