visit 10 new places in my city

There are certain famous things in this city I’ve never visited that I want to see as I work towards this goal, and a few museums I’ve had on my list but haven’t made it to yet.

I’d really like to accomplish this goal by the end of 2009.

free food and cheap drinks. Prefect team bonding pub.

I live in one of the most visited cities in the country and I have yet to really explore it. I would like to see more of what New Orleans has to offer.

I’ve made progress on this goal! I live in Knoxville and my last post was the first new place I visited- Market Square. Its been really neat learning about the place I live- I never realized how many interesting things there are to explore! Here are the next new places I have visited…

Place #2- Knoxville Gardens and Arboretum … with cedars of Lebanon and whimsical round stone buildings from the 1700’s. Beautiful!

Place #3- Yee-Haw Industries … They print publications on antique Gutenberg-style printing presses. I got to meet the owner and see how they do their work.

Place #4- Knoxville Museum of Art. Interesting exhibits, and a neat interactive art room for kids that my little girl enjoyed.

Place #5- Museum of East Tennessee History. It was open for free on the day of a history festival! Very neat place- they have Davy Crockett’s actual first gun.

Place #6- Knoxville Visitor’s center – free bluegrass concert each day at noon for the Blueplate Special!

Place #7- World’s Fair Park & Sunsphere. Knoxville hosted the World’s Fair in 1982 and in the park you can go up in the Sunsphere for free and get a good view of the city.

Place #8- Tennessee Theater. Beautifully restored in 20’s art nouveau style. Free concert on the first Monday of the month at noon- bring a brown-paper bag lunch and enjoy the music!

Only two places to go!

Up until a few days ago, I knew nothing about Millenium Park. I visited because of a Photo Walk, and I feel in love with the beauty of the place. I ended up running into a co-worker while there!

Managed work out how to get there by public transport, fairly easy too. Saw tranformeres on the hugh screen but honestly couldnt really tell the difference form a normal cinema. Maybe i need to go back and watch a 3D film there.

I finally made it to Baker Beach – it seems like, when everything is going wrong with my life, I like to go to the beach. What will ever happen to me if I have to move somewhere landlocked, I don’t even want to think about it! But I usually go to Ocean Beach, because I knew how to get there. So, I got out the MUNI map and made the trek to Baker Beach – definitely less windy, more Beach-y. Worth it. :)

A friend ended up with extra tickets to the symphony last night, and so I snapped up this opportunity to check out something with a bit of culture.

The building itself was cool, and the music was pretty cool as well. We saw a fantastic pianist who apparently does not perform very often – she was truly amazing. I think that the symphony is not exactly my thing, but it was really fun to go once. I’d also like to go to the ballet – I’ve never been to a professional ballet before (or any ballet, for that matter)

another bar, quite small but still pretty cool and is right next to uni so its in the perfect location.

Despite the fact that I live a 15-minute walk from this area of the city, I have never been there. So today, in search of a hardware store which might have windowboxes, I walked to the ACE hardware store in Japantown. I checked out a little mall there that has a little shop for all of your bonsai needs, a pretty plaza, and saw some intriguing resteraunts. Curiously, all the neat shops and neighborhoody things seem to be contained in shopping malls, rather than being out on the street.

The hardware store did not have windowboxes, but I kept wandering along until I ended up in Pacific Heights, where the Fillmore Hardware store did have flower boxes. I’ve been to this neighborhood before, so it doesn’t count as something new.. so I am unimpressed by Japantown, but I have discovered a safe walking route to Pacific Heights, and a cute hardware store. Success!