Travel is a terrific thing. It adds a sense of adventure to your life. It brings new inspiration into your brain. It allows you to open up and have new experiences, broadening your knowledge of the world around you. This happens almost any time that you travel but some destinations are certainly better for it than others.

Conde Nast has a list of the top cities throughout the world to visit as voted on by over thirty thousand readers. The cities are divided by continent. I’m happy to see that my favorite city, San Francisco, ranks number one on the list for both American cities and all of the cities throughout the globe. I’m also excited to see that number one on the South America list is Buenos Aires, a city that I’m hoping to visit this year due in no small part to the fact that it frequently gets compared to San Francisco.

But I didn’t agree with everything on the list, especially as far as the U.S. cities go. So I decided to make my own list of the top ten cities in America to visit. Some of my choices were the same as the Conde Nast readers (San Diego, New York City) but others were quite different (they picked Carmel, really?!) I’d love to know which ten cities you would choose for a list of places to visit in the U.S. Leave it in the comments!

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We all know that I love San Francisco and that I think it’s the best place in the country to explore. That’s why I write so many travel articles about San Francisco like this one on the top ten San Francisco neighborhoods. But I also love to travel and I know that there are a lot of other great cities throughout the United States and around the world which is why I’m happy to see that the aforementioned San Francisco article was included in the Carnival of Cities alongside posts about all kinds of other neat places to travel.

There were three other U.S. cities included in this blog carnival. There was information on taking kids to Boston, visiting the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and changing housing trends in Tallahassee. There was also one more post from the Americas – a really cool post about cycling through Peru (which is almost as neat as exploring any city with a walking tour).

People interested in travel outside of the United States will be happy to know that there are also several travel posts related to European and Asian cities. Two come from Spain – one on Barcelona and one on the Alicante Festivals. There were also posts on Kuala Lumpur and Jaipur. Cool places with lots to learn about them so the blog carnival is definitely worth a read.

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