Travel thread

[dad]

none of this is normal

I can’t believe he left her behind. What a bastard.

It was absolutely the right call. Her call.

I’m guessing it was all financial. Pay the diff between one ticket as opposed to multiples. Any rebook fees too, but those are going away.

You thinking she’ll learn a valuable lesson is just a silver lining, one that won’t happen btw lol.

To my surprise not a penny exchanged hands and she was actually put on a different airline.

Anyway the security line was 2+ hours. Fkn crazy man, never used to be that way at Seatac.

3 hours early from now on, or it’s an artificial ploy to sell more Clear / TSA Pre-check memberships. I only fly a few times a year so didn’t really think this is worth it but now I’m not so sure.

have you fallen on hard times? it's $75 for three years.

or free if you work for the fed.

[96583UP]

doesn't TSA pre-check require an in-person interview? at the airport? who has time for that

The trick is to schedule it for sometime during a layover

i only fly non-stop!

[lennytheweedwhacker]

doesn't TSA pre-check require an in-person interview? at the airport? who has time for that

I was able to go to a satellite office. Didn’t take long at all.

My employer paid for mine, but don’t think I’d purchase it if only expecting to fly a few times a year for non-work trips.

[Bammer]

Bammer how you gonna have twins and no TSA pre-check?!

We’ve only flown with them about 4 times. Never seen a security line like that.

[BurtReynolds]

Beaumont Texas is the deepest, dampest depth of the devil's asshole. It is a blight on the world. Can someone tell me why there has been road construction around the backwater shithole for 80 miles in both directions for the last 15 years?! There is nothing out here! I can't even call it road construction, because there is no actual constructing of roads going on here. It's just barriers, narrow lanes, bridges to nowhere and rusting cranes. What is going on?

[VinylGuy]

doesnt sound like a cool place to visit.

Is everyone armed there too? can you ask some folks about that? and their thoughts on abortion?

[BurtReynolds]

doesnt sound like a cool place to visit.

Is everyone armed there too? can you ask some folks about that? and their thoughts on abortion?

I don't think anyone actually lives there it's just swamp and refineries.

[epilogue]

Going to Austin at the end of Jan.

Going to Barcelona at the end of Feb.

Going to Ireland in August.

What are you planning to see and do in Ireland?

Alright. So we decided to go in May instead of August. Our trip is more or less booked. We're flying into Dublin. We'll have two full days there. We're seeing Ibsen's Ghosts at the Abbey Theater on the second night.

We are renting a car and driving to the west coast. Definitely staying in Doolin. Seeing the Cliffs of Moher. Doing the Aran Islands -- we'll probably only have time for one island. Leaning Inis Oirr? But Inis Mor seems super rad, too.

We'll have three days in and around that area. Then we'll drive back to Dublin, hoping to go through Galway on the way back. Another couple of days in Dublin and then fly out.

Those are the broad strokes. Really excited for this trip, y'all!

[Ello Sailor]

Galway is great. Definitely worth the detour.

[epilogue]

Galway is great. Definitely worth the detour.

[spike]

Sounds great, once you get over the initial anxiety of driving on the opposite side of the road!

[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.

[Bammer]

Should I be signing up for TSA Pre-check? Or for Clear? Or something else?

What is the best one?

Thank you! I’m doing it.

[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.

[Bammer]

My man. Gracias.

[doug rr]

Pre-check. Clear is Delta only and costs more money.

I have clear and have never flown delta that I know of

[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]

Pre-check. Clear is Delta only and costs more money.

I have clear and have never flown delta that I know of

For real? We did a free trial way back when they first introduced it, and it was delta exclusive at the time. Maybe that was part of the initial trial roll out?

yeah, I don't know...my wife and I have it used it a couple weeks ago at SeaTac flying Alaska..

[Bammer]

So which is better????????

[wease]

I had never heard of Clear before so I say Pre-Check.