Whither Our Subsequent Poker Street Journey?

Paul and I are at the moment attempting to determine the place we wish to goal our subsequent poker street journey. After visiting 108 poker rooms, we’ve got lined loads of the nation on our poker journeys. We’ve been up and down the East Coast, to Florida 4 or 5 occasions, to Las Vegas, and we even spent a month tooling round Texas final yr. After in depth thought, we’ve got give you two prime candidates for our subsequent poker street journey: Southern California (notably the world round LA) and the Higher Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, perhaps the Chicago space).

Paul is pushing the entire Southern California factor arduous (sunshine, seashores, relaxed folks), however I actually wish to go to the northern tier. We thought it may be enjoyable to argue it out Throwdown Thursday type. Laborious to imagine we haven’t written a throwdown in shut to a few years!

With no additional ado, I’ll let Paul lay out his case:

Paul: To begin, we reside in New England. If we would like gloomy skies and almost year-round climate that makes you surprise why God hates you, we will simply keep house. The Higher Midwest simply mainly swaps the Atlantic Ocean shoreline for Lake Michigan’s, which is to say, extra of the identical. Sure, loads of lovely timber, lakes…identical to the place we reside.

Now, California is a reboot. A totally completely different panorama, tradition, and tempo. Give me a few of that oppressive sunshine. Bear in mind simply 5 months in the past after we by no means noticed a cloud for six weeks in Florida? Our moods have been, to place it mildly, higher. Let’s attempt that on for dimension once more, West Coast model.

Heather: Ugh. Southern California is such a cliche. All of it. From Disney to La Jolla to Hollywood Boulevard. Don’t you are feeling such as you’ve already accomplished all that via the fixed stream of flicks and TV reveals depicting the world? I’ve no must expertise that in particular person. Been there. Seen that. Subsequent?

Positive, the Higher Tier states might not be heat. That simply means we should always go in the summertime when New England is 80 zillion levels and muggy. Nothing says we’ve got to take ALL our poker street journeys in February. How about slightly Might in Madison, Wisconsin. June in Jordan, Minnesota?

Paul: I’ll see your June woodland jaunt, and lift you the Southern California coast in February. Common temperatures are close to 70. We will do one among our favourite issues, eat on the skin patio of a restaurant in winter! Nothing says roll with one of the best of the seasons like being within the southern U.S. within the winter (as evidenced our winter journeys not solely to Florida however New Orleans and Texas as effectively). Or we might be within the Higher Midwest in June questioning if we really by no means left our yard.

And, Disney and Hollywood are nowhere close to one of the best components of visiting SoCal. Santa Catalina, Malibu, Joshua Tree Nationwide Park, San Bernardino mountains – all fairly distinctive and attention-grabbing.

Heather: Yeah, yeah. Joshua Tree. Malibu. Solar, sand. I get it. You recognize what Southern California doesn’t have? Home on the Rock!! Isn’t it time we FINALLY use a poker street journey to go to Home on the Rock? You’ve got denied me for oh so lengthy…

Paul: I’ll admit that I’ve a perverse curiosity in Home on the Rock ever since we noticed it depicted in American Gods. It’s definitely a head journey, however we could possibly rating some psychedelics and get the identical sensation. And Home on the Rock has a sure Meow Wolf vibe, which was not our favourite a part of Santa Fe. And mainly all of Southern California is a psychedlic journey, so I believe we will get your wants met with that outdoors the wilds of Wisconsin.

Heather: Persevering with to disclaim me Home on the Rock is simply merciless and you realize it.

You recognize what else Southern California has? Wildfires! Earthquakes! Mudslides! Received’t discover any of these within the Higher Tier.

Paul: Yeah, there’s some pure catastrophe threat, I’ll provide you with that. However, hey, like poker, you play the possibilities and hope for one of the best. I’ll be ready for the bottom to maneuver slightly if it means I can get some nice Mexican meals.

Talking of poker: The Gardens On line casino, The Bicycle, Hollywood Park On line casino. These are some main, well-known rooms we have to get on our poker resume earlier than those that nobody has ever heard of within the Higher Midwest.

Heather: Come on. Everybody has heard of St. Croix On line casino Turtle Lake!! Okay, you might need some extent there.

How about 1,116 miles to Madison, Wisconsin, and a couple of,972 to LA? It is going to take us two weeks simply to succeed in Southern California. That’s loads of lodge rooms, time on the street, and misplaced work hours. Madison, nevertheless, is only a hop, skip, and a bounce away.

Paul: You’ve got me on that, though we’ll at the very least get to Minneapolis if we do the Higher Midwest, so now you’re at virtually 1,400 miles, so midway to LA! We at all times work out tips on how to match work in, so not anxious about that.

Positively dearer, however a lot of nice alternatives. We will go the north route westward and see a few of the nationwide parks and panorama of the northwestern US that we’ve by no means seen. Bear in mind how a lot we cherished the drive via Colorado and Utah after we went to Las Vegas? We will do one thing related via the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho. And we may doubtlessly loop in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco.

Now that feels like an epic spherical journey! And on the best way out, I promise you a cease at Home on the Rock.

Heather: Hmm… If you happen to promise I get to see Home on the Rock. I assume I’ll give it some thought.

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