Chattanooga? Favorite City in the World?
Posted in General Info by Karen Rhodes on January 10th, 2007 Gary A. Warner, the Travel editor with the Orange County Register travels the world every year. His has given his top picks of his 2006 travels.
My travels in 2006 took me to Hawaii, where I have been dozens of times, and to Barbados, where I have never been before.
What a year it has been. I was 200 feet below sea level at the Salton Sea and 9,000 feet above in Mammoth. I slept on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and hiked through the San Andreas Fault
I sped around a tiny Caribbean island on rickety handmade powerboat and rumbled across the Eastern Sierra in a steel-jacketed Hummer H2 with a GPS system. I stayed in Adolf Hitler’s former playground in Germany and toured an internment camp in California where the United States briefly forgot the Bill of Rights.
This is the best part:
Favorite city: Chattanooga, Tenn.The riverside city has a rebounding downtown, great cafes and shops, and a classic minor-league ballpark. Two famous Civil War battlefields, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, are nearby.
I love it here but this man has traveled the world and to name little ole Chattanooga as his favorite city of 2006 is an honor indeed!!
John said,
January 11, 2007 @ 5:06 am
I lived in Chattanooga for two years and loved the town. I can see his reasoning for choosing Chattanooga.
Karen Rhodes said,
January 11, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
John, I think we grow used to our surroundings and take them for granted. I know I have in the past but not anymore. Years ago, after spending 6 weeks in flat Louisiana I was never so