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Post by RangoA@live.com on Jun 24, 2008 7:13:58 GMT -5
 I went to several other cities in the country during the the time frame of 1983 - 1985. The first city I went to was Atlantic City and booked a hotel in one of the casinos there. I stayed two or three days and gambled and watched some concerts like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, they were fantastic. I grew up listening to both of them. My mother liked these two artists a lot. Ray Charles was a musician that my mother admired since he was partially or completely blind and he still could play the piano and sing very well. Stevie Wonder was a protege of his and was a favorite of my brother and sister. My favorite song was Superstition by Stevie Wonder. Anyway, I left Atlantic City in 1983 and went to Philadelphia for the first time. When I was in Philadelphia and went to the Philadelphia Seventy-sixers game right after they won the NBA championship the year before. I remember my favorite player was Dr. J, Julius Erving and he was a remarkable player. I went out with some people after the game and partied as usual. Back then, I would just walk up to people and ask them out. Usually, we wind up partying somewhere. I went to Washington DC with my mother and we went to the White House while President Ronald Regan was in office. We went on tour of it. Back then, people we're allowed to tour parts of the White House as long as everyone bought tickets to take a guided tour of the history of our country and the White House, specifically. I remember we went to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and learned how people whom made tremendous contributions and differences to our country were honored. We went to the Smithsonian Institute and that museum was so big were couldn't see all the buildings in it. I was in awe of how much culture was there. The Smithsonian Institute reminded me of the Louve in Paris, France when I went to Paris in 1983, 1984. While in Washington DC, I saw the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and the mall where all of these places were located with the exception of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. My mother and I went to Los Angeles, CA. That was the only time I ever visited LA. We went to places like the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Catholic Bird Museum outside of LA and other places that were really just tourist attractions, however I had never seen them before, so I liked them. We went to Tijuana, Mexico during that trip by bus and had spanish food and shopped in many spanish stores. The prices of goods were much lower than in the states at the time and so many people used to go to Mexico to buy things they needed. I remember going to Pittsburgh and Cleveland quite a bit with my friends and family to see concerts and sports games. Some of the concerts I saw in Cleveland were Aerosmith and Styxx. We went to sports games like the Pittsburg Pirates and Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Cavaliers. We used to go out to nightclubs in Pittsburg and Cleveland. The small town life was getting to us and so many older people were saying that's where we should go if we had enough of small town life, so we did. We liked those two cities because they were so close to where we lived it didn't take long to drive there. Also, that's where the two major airports were and we knew how to drive there from taking trips out of Cleveland and Pittsburg airports. Next, I'll write about traveling to Europe with the International Student Exchange while at Youngstown State University in 1984.
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I went to several other cities in the country during the the time frame of 1983 - 1985. The first city I went to was Atlantic City and booked a hotel in one of the casinos there. I stayed two or three days and gambled and watched some concerts like Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, they were fantastic. I grew up listening to both of them. My mother liked these two artists a lot. Ray Charles was a musician that my mother admired since he was partially or completely blind and he still could play the piano and sing very well. Stevie Wonder was a protege of his and was a favorite of my brother and sister. My favorite song was Superstition by Stevie Wonder. Anyway, I left Atlantic City in 1983 and went to Philadelphia for the first time. When I was in Philadelphia and went to the Philadelphia Seventy-sixers game right after they won the NBA championship the year before. I remember my favorite player was Dr. J, Julius Erving and he was a remarkable player. I went out with some people after the game and partied as usual. Back then, I would just walk up to people and ask them out. Usually, we wind up partying somewhere. I went to Washington DC with my mother and we went to the White House while President Ronald Regan was in office. We went on tour of it. Back then, people we're allowed to tour parts of the White House as long as everyone bought tickets to take a guided tour of the history of our country and the White House, specifically. I remember we went to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and learned how people whom made tremendous contributions and differences to our country were honored. We went to the Smithsonian Institute and that museum was so big were couldn't see all the buildings in it. I was in awe of how much culture was there. The Smithsonian Institute reminded me of the Louve in Paris, France when I went to Paris in 1983, 1984. While in Washington DC, I saw the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and the mall where all of these places were located with the exception of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. My mother and I went to Los Angeles, CA. That was the only time I ever visited LA. We went to places like the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Catholic Bird Museum outside of LA and other places that were really just tourist attractions, however I had never seen them before, so I liked them. We went to Tijuana, Mexico during that trip by bus and had spanish food and shopped in many spanish stores. The prices of goods were much lower than in the states at the time and so many people used to go to Mexico to buy things they needed. I remember going to Pittsburgh and Cleveland quite a bit with my friends and family to see concerts and sports games. Some of the concerts I saw in Cleveland were Aerosmith and Styxx. We went to sports games like the Pittsburg Pirates and Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Cavaliers. We used to go out to nightclubs in Pittsburg and Cleveland. The small town life was getting to us and so many older people were saying that's where we should go if we had enough of small town life, so we did. We liked those two cities because they were so close to where we lived it didn't take long to drive there. Also, that's where the two major airports were and we knew how to drive there from taking trips out of Cleveland and Pittsburg airports. Next, I'll write about traveling to Europe with the International Student Exchange while at Youngstown State University in 1984.