Travel thread

[epilogue]

Barcelona in six days!!!

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[spike]

Barcelona in six days!!!

nice!

this trip we're currently on that's not going so hot is a test to see if madrid as a work/family trip in a couple months would work. so far, i don't think so lol. i'll see spain one day!

[Bammer]

You love it

You’re normally very good at this, but that one sucked. Own it. Move on.

PS - If you’re struggling because you’re hangry you can always go to In N Out.

[Higgs]

Barcelona in six days!!!

https://eatlikebourdain.com/anthony-bou ... barcelona/

Awesome Joe - ¡Pasa un buen rato!

And great linky-poo there trag. Gonna bookmark that one for future reference.

After taking 2 months off over Christmas I'm really trying to stay in that mindset of pulling back from the rat race a bit and putting myself and the wiffey first more often. Kinda like being kind to ourselves before worrying about too much else kinda thing. So we've started planning our next breaks/holidays because you just have to have stuff to look forward to.

My MiL's family all live in Melbourne, waaaaaay over the other side of the country from us. We last spent christmas with them in 2018 and we've decided its time again this year. So planning on taking all of December off and going across early to spend a few weeks travelling the Mornington Peninsular and south of Melbourne before having Christmas with them all. Should be fun.

And then its gonna be Italy in 2024. We think 3 weeks on the ground there (so not including travel time) will do us. Planning on October at this stage. I want to hire a car and do some driving, particularly up north but wherever really. Any suggestions on that, RM crew?

[spike]

You love it

You’re normally very good at this, but that one sucked. Own it. Move on.

PS - If you’re struggling because you’re hangry you can always go to In N Out.

i suggested going to a restaurant tonight, because i no longer trust the room service here, but my wife was tired from a long day and insisted. she's now on hold with dining service trying to get an eta on the food we ordered an hour ago. so yes, i'm once again hangry.

once the nights on her company run out, i think we need to find another establishment.

[Bammer]

You love it

You’re normally very good at this, but that one sucked. Own it. Move on.

PS - If you’re struggling because you’re hangry you can always go to In N Out.

i suggested going to a restaurant tonight, because i no longer trust the room service here, but my wife was tired from a long day and insisted. she's now on hold with dining service trying to get an eta on the food we ordered an hour ago. so yes, i'm once again hangry.

once the nights on her company run out, i think we need to find another establishment.

Room service is for suckas

[spike]

You love it

You’re normally very good at this, but that one sucked. Own it. Move on.

PS - If you’re struggling because you’re hangry you can always go to In N Out.

i suggested going to a restaurant tonight, because i no longer trust the room service here, but my wife was tired from a long day and insisted. she's now on hold with dining service trying to get an eta on the food we ordered an hour ago. so yes, i'm once again hangry.

once the nights on her company run out, i think we need to find another establishment.

Room service is for suckas

I’ve never had issues. And it wasn’t my first choice today… I took the kid to the restaurant here but she immediately cracked the shits because it was peak nap time on her Chicago clock. Pulled the plug on that, put her down in the room, then couldn’t leave.

[Bammer]

You love it

You’re normally very good at this, but that one sucked. Own it. Move on.

PS - If you’re struggling because you’re hangry you can always go to In N Out.

i suggested going to a restaurant tonight, because i no longer trust the room service here, but my wife was tired from a long day and insisted. she's now on hold with dining service trying to get an eta on the food we ordered an hour ago. so yes, i'm once again hangry.

once the nights on her company run out, i think we need to find another establishment.

Room service is for suckas

I’ve never had issues. And it wasn’t my first choice today… I took the kid to the restaurant here but she immediately cracked the shits because it was peak nap time on her Chicago clock. Pulled the plug on that, put her down in the room, then couldn’t leave.

This is the part of the conversation where I simp for timeshares because full kitchen in unit for a situation like this.

[spike]

You love it

You’re normally very good at this, but that one sucked. Own it. Move on.

PS - If you’re struggling because you’re hangry you can always go to In N Out.

i suggested going to a restaurant tonight, because i no longer trust the room service here, but my wife was tired from a long day and insisted. she's now on hold with dining service trying to get an eta on the food we ordered an hour ago. so yes, i'm once again hangry.

once the nights on her company run out, i think we need to find another establishment.

Room service is for suckas

I’ve never had issues. And it wasn’t my first choice today… I took the kid to the restaurant here but she immediately cracked the shits because it was peak nap time on her Chicago clock. Pulled the plug on that, put her down in the room, then couldn’t leave.

This is the part of the conversation where I simp for timeshares because full kitchen in unit for a situation like this.

Heard that. Wife’s company is paying for this room through Thursday, so figured we could make it work. Didn’t expect such incompetence.

[dad]

It’s our last night in Northern Arizona. The Grand Canyon is likely the highlight of our trip. It’s also the reason for our trip.

I would love to come back and explore more of this state. There are so many jaw-dropping places here.

Much of the area by the Grand Canyon, and all the way up to Page, where Horseshoe Bend is located, is like being on another planet.

On another note, if you are a veteran, I would highly recommend getting the free lifetime pass for entrance to the national parks. It’s worth it. We’ve visited six different parks on our trip, and it saved us $135 in entry fees. It’s good for you and up to three guests.

[E.H. Ruddock]

On another note, if you are a veteran, I would highly recommend getting the free lifetime pass for entrance to the national parks. It’s worth it. We’ve visited six different parks on our trip, and it saved us $135 in entry fees. It’s good for you and up to three guests.

Well worth it. We used it for Acadia and hoping to hit two more this summer.

[epilogue]

Barcelona in six days!!!

nice!

this trip we're currently on that's not going so hot is a test to see if madrid as a work/family trip in a couple months would work. so far, i don't think so lol. i'll see spain one day!

I hope you get there. Spain is amazing. Barcelona is the only other city (besides NYC) that I can really see myself living in long term. I adore it.

Still haven't been to Madrid yet, though. That's definitely on the list. I really want to see the whole country.

[E.H. Ruddock]

We were in Madrid last summer. Loved it so much. It is so beautiful. Very fucking hot in the summer though. My only regret is not taking a day trip to Toledo.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Have a big travel decision to make soon. I have a milestone birthday coming up a year from now, and one thing I've always wanted to do is travel to St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic. But you have to plan pretty far in advance, fly to South Africa, then 6 more hours on a small plane to the island. Stay a week, then reverse the flight. I think it would be neat as a trip for this specific birthday, but I also feel like I would want some time to explore South Africa as well, so that pushes the trip pretty much into 2.5 to 3 weeks. Not sure either of our employers would go for that at this point. My other option would be to save that for a retirement trip and instead do either North England and Scotland, or some kind of Nordic trip.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[doug rr]

we're winding down here..all packed and movers come on Monday..have stuff to finish up all next week but then so looking forward to taking the Coast Starlight Train from LA to Seattle..35 hours in a sleeper car

[Coach]

These are all on my current list:

Vietnam
Bangladesh
Timor-Leste
India
Cambodia
Nepal
Japan
Ethiopia
South Korea
Eritrea

[Bammer]

Have a big travel decision to make soon. I have a milestone birthday coming up a year from now, and one thing I've always wanted to do is travel to St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic. But you have to plan pretty far in advance, fly to South Africa, then 6 more hours on a small plane to the island. Stay a week, then reverse the flight. I think it would be neat as a trip for this specific birthday, but I also feel like I would want some time to explore South Africa as well, so that pushes the trip pretty much into 2.5 to 3 weeks. Not sure either of our employers would go for that at this point. My other option would be to save that for a retirement trip and instead do either North England and Scotland, or some kind of Nordic trip.

Congrats on your upcoming 60th my man!

[epilogue]

These are all on my current list:

Vietnam
Bangladesh
Timor-Leste
India
Cambodia
Nepal
Japan
Ethiopia
South Korea
Eritrea

Vietnam is still on the top of my list too. I was supposed to be there in March of 2020...

Obviously had to cancel and I haven't been able to reschedule since. Fingers crossed that it happens in 2024.