Send Me Somewhere Results – Week Seven

No live music and BBQ for me this go around. Austin has been eliminated.

…and then there were two. After seven weeks of voting for where to send me on my next trip, only two cities remain. If you have been following the voting each week than it should come as no surprise that both Montreal and New Orleans are now in the finals. That means Austin joins Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Quebec City, San Diego and Vancouver, which were all taken down by your votes each week.

What surprised me the most about this voting was that for all seven weeks, either New Orleans (weeks 1, 3 and 4) or Montreal (weeks 2, 5, 6 and 7) were in first place. Voting will last two weeks and on January 1, 2010 the announcement will be made about which city I will check out on an upcoming trip early next year.

So which French influenced city will get your vote? Will it be Montreal? Perhaps New Orleans?

Update – January 1: The winning city has been announced. Click here to find out where you are sending me.

Results:

Montreal: 50%

New Orleans: 29%

Austin: 21%

Tags: austin, canada, louisiana, montreal, new orleans, quebec, texas

Send Me Somewhere Results – Week Six

Then there were three. After showing some signs of life the Windy City just could not hang out in the final weeks. Chicago has been eliminated from the “Send Me Somewhere” competition. For most of the week the four cities stayed in the same position, except for one day when there was a tie for first.

Claiming first place for another week is Montreal. I am amazed at how many of you want me to go either here or to New Orleans. Since starting “Send Me Somewhere” back in October, only Montreal and New Orleans have claimed the top spot. The two cities might be different in climate, but they both offer cuisine with a heavy French influence.

Week seven voting is now underway. Will Montreal stay on top? Can New Orleans reclaim first? Or is Austin going to shock everyone and take both cities down? Make your vote count…get clicking. Only three cities remain and after this week’s voting, the final two will face off with the winning city announced on January 1, 2010.

Below are the results from week six:

Montreal - 34%

New Orleans – 29%

Austin - 26%

Chicago - 11%

Tags: austin, chicago, montreal, new orleans

Send Me Somewhere Results – Week Five

I have been singing in the shower for a few weeks now in preparation  for tonight’s first ever “Twitaoke” (Twitter Karaoke). Hosted by the travel geek’s at SoSauce.com, it will be a little get together of about 20 travel writers, travel bloggers and just plain travel addicts. Hope to see some of you there. But be forewarned, I enjoy a tune or two after a few pints of Guinness.

Now on to this week’s “Send Me Somewhere” results. Oh Canada…another one of your cities has been eliminated. Just one week after Vancouver got the boot, Quebec City will join the host of the 2010 winter Olympics and the other sorry cities that just could not get enough votes to survive the weekly elimination.

Voting for week six is underway and it is down to New Orleans and Montreal, who have both dominated the weekly voting and the cities of Chicago and Austin. Remember to vote each week in order to keep your favorite city alive until the finals on January 1, 2010. Here are this week’s results:

1. Montreal – 35%

2. New Orleans - 24%

3. Chicago - 19%

4. Austin - 17%

5. Quebec City – 5%

Tags: austin, chicago, montreal, new orleans, quebec city, texas

Send Me Somewhere Results – Week Four

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I am writing to you this Friday from the cozy Tarrytown House in Tarrytown, New York. Located about 25 miles outside of the Big Apple, this beautiful hotel is where I will be resting my head for the night. Tomorrow I will be heading back into the city to catch the ACES train for a ride down to Atlantic City to lose some money at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

In the meantime, the results are in for week four’s votes and the last remaining west coast hopeful city has been eliminated. That’s right, no Vancouver vacation for me in early 2010. So we are now down to five cities and it should get interesting as the amount of options gets lower and lower. The winning city will be announced January 1. You can start voting for week 5 now. Here are this weeks results:

1. New Orleans – 36%

2. Montreal - 27%

3. Chicago - 14%

4. Austin - 10%

5. Quebec City – 8%

6. Vancouver - 5%

Tags: austin, chicago, montreal, new orleans, quebec city, vancouver

Send Me Somewhere Results – Week Three

San Francisco: One of the two cities eliminated this week.

Another week of voting has come to an end and this week not one, but two cities were kicked off the island…er I mean eliminated. To just backtrack before I give the results, to show you how unpredictable this voting has become, last week’s favorite city Montreal was in dead last for six out of the last seven days. It was not until late last night that a few votes put the popular Canadian city back in the competition.

Over the last two rounds we saw one west coast city eliminated each week. San Diego was out followed by Seattle. Well the dark cloud of the left coast continues with double elimination due to the bottom cities receiving the same amount of votes. So I will have to part ways with Portland and say sayonara to San Francisco as both were the least voted on cities this week. It is now down to six cities and they are New Orleans, Quebec City, Montreal, Vancouver, Chicago, and Austin. You can start voting now for week four.

Here are the results from week three:

1. New Orleans – 27%

2. Chicago - 18%

3. Vancouver - 16%

4. Austin - 12%

5. Montreal - 10%

6. Quebec City – 7%

7. San Francisco – 5%

7. Portland, OR – 5%

Tags: austin, canada, chicago, illinois, louisiana, montreal, new orleans, oregon, portland, quebec city, san francisco, seattle, texas, vancouver, washington