Cedar Point. Hands down!
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Really? I thought they were awesome, except maybe the teeter-totter one. It's funny, i did them at night, spectacular, but thought day might be more freaky.
Have to agree with this. Riding the bay was nice, but no nicer than say, Elwood. The bridge was packed with tourists and locals and it wasn't even peak season, couldn't imagine what a nightmare it would be during busy times. Fisherman's wharf felt like Southend on Sea without the rides. The highlight was driving up and down the hills pretending I was Bullit. Alcatraz is way cool. And I'm a bit weird but I liked Lombard St too.
best place i have stayed in!
if you are going just to check out the place then 3 i think is enough.
Its the must thing to do in San Fran and i agree apart from Alcatraz nothing excited me to much about the city.
Ok cool. Anything a must-do? Seems to be some cool tours and interested to see this Rainey street - have heard 6th street is a bit dodgy??
Rainey Street is awesome, had a great time there too. 6th Street is your place to have a big night and definitely worth checking out. Petes dueling piano is good fun. If a Longhorns football game is on Id try and see that.
Check out la BBQ for great bbq, was around a 40 minute wait when I went on a Sunday, but theres free beer in the line.
Otherwise Kerlin nearby is great and doesnt have much of a line.
I walked around on my own around 1 am one night, street was crowded and i dont think you would have any issues if you stayed on the main street.
6th st at 2am is quite a thing to witness. Mounted cops about 10 wide across the road, police car lights flashing, cops yelling at everyone to go home
i found it very nice to walk around.
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State Capitol is a worth a visit. I went to the Texas state Museum which i enjoyed and a tour of the Longhorns Stadium was great.
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Green Tortoise Hostel in SF was cool, there's dorms but there's also private rooms available which sleep 3/4. Don't remember it being too expensive, though I'm not sure if there's private bathrooms if that's a deal breaker.
It's around the North Beach area which was an interesting part of the city, too. The day I arrived there was some sort of festival going on, stalls in the streets, live music etc. Was a lot of fun.
Heard some scary news today that some are predicting the America dollar to go down to .50 by mid next year
How do you mean? Against our currency, or is that our currency against theirs?
Let's just call in all the debt and we're all broke. Could happen.
I bought a t-shirt from there and it was hung on the wall with the map of Texas (which was the back of the shirt) and proceeded to wear it back to front all night. In my defence, I'd had a fair few Lone Star beers
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Australian Dollar to .50 American is what it is. American dollar remains the dollar. Haha.Heard some scary news today that some are predicting the America dollar to go down to .50 by mid next year
So our currency is the one dropping.
Couldn't imagine the $US plummeting to those levels.
Been thereabouts once before. So what would drive that?
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First time I went it was around 67c. Second time it was $1.10. That was amazing.
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Heard some scary news today that some are predicting the America dollar to go down to .50 by mid next year
Markets are saying:
25% chance of the Fed increasing it 3 times which would get the cash rate at our 1.5% providing we don't touch ours
34% chance we'll raise our rates against a 3% chance we'll lower them
Getting anywhere near 50c seems pie in the sky type scenarios, at least for next year. The big unknown is how the world will react to Donald when he takes office.
I just booked 5 weeks in August/Sept and cant wait to head back... LA>roadtrip across to Utah via Yosemite>Seattle>Cuba>LA.
If you're on sixth street and still have a shirt on by the end of the night you've done well in my books.
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Heard some scary news today that some are predicting the America dollar to go down to .50 by mid next year
They have been predicting this for 3 years now.
Anyway, if it happens, it happens. The Aussie Dollar dropped for .49c back in the late 90's and we survived and people continued to travel.
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When the Oz Reserve Bank stops playing politics by trying to prop up the housing bubble, and restores interest rates to above the historical current low rate [the RB is now totally out of gas, and credibility] the AUD will rise. But not back to the highs of the last decade as the Fed will increase US rates, and the new US admin will likely increase business confidence as it cuts red tape.
I play the 4X market. 76 to 80 cents is about the right fit. 80 cents maybe in 2018.
