Send me somewhere!

So, I have a free plane ticket burning a hole in my pocket. It's on Southwest Airlines and it must be used by November of this year.

I had been saving it to possibly go to Chicago, but I didn't get called for a Jeopardy audition, and now my friend who I would have visited there has moved back to Ohio. Then I was saving it to go to Coachella, but that was way too expensive.

I'd love to go to Kripalu again, but funds are not quite that plentiful.

I don't mind going someplace by myself, but I do need someplace with affordable hotels in that case. I like going on vacations that can involve museums, hanging out in local places, walking around cities, and the like. I'm not terribly outdoorsy and I'm not into the ultra-touristy stuff. I'd rather go somewhere with good public transport, as renting a car makes the price go up really quickly.

In recent years, I've been to NYC, Chicago, Seattle, Portland (OR) and St. Louis. I'm not averse to returning to any of those though, except maybe the first two, if I'm going solo.

Suggestions?

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I have read not one but two books recently, that have asserted that the moment Michael Dukakis lost the 1988 presidential election was when he put on a helmet and rode around in the tank. I remember seeing this on television, but I was too young for insightful political commentary, so I must ask, given this scenario, why is it that Shrubya wasn't ousted simply for wearing the codpiece/flightsuit getup? Because if comical military fashion "don'ts" can really be that serious, I think the latter is more egregious.

Or maybe not. I am wearing pointy-toed 80s flats today, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

Rant

Another thing I keep seeing in various places: women apologizing to "guys" for any mention of menstrual products. I'm not talking about in depth discussions of gushing blood, which should probably be cut in the interest of protecting the squeamish of both genders, but rather someone uses a phrase such as "She asked me for a tampon", then says "sorry guys -- lol."

If said guys are that offended, I don't understand how they can watch television or walk into a grocery store, so I think their problems are larger than we can handle here.